pyrope

1. 1.

   a deep red garnet used as a gemstone

   Broadergarnet

Other forms of pyrope

plural

pyropes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pyrope

What does pyrope mean?

pyrope means "a deep red garnet used as a gemstone".

How many syllables are in pyrope?

pyrope has 2 syllables: py-rope. The stress falls on "py".

Is pyrope a common word?

pyrope is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.