rosin

Other forms of rosin

plural

rosins·

past tense

rosinned·

present participle

rosinning·

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 rosin

What does rosin mean?

rosin means "any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rosin?

rosin has 2 syllables: ro-sin. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /ˈɹɑzən/.

What is another word for rosin?

Close synonyms include resin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rosin a common word?

rosin is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.