sandpaper

Other forms of sandpaper

plural

sandpapers·

past tense

sandpaperred·

present participle

sandpaperring·

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 sandpaper

What does sandpaper mean?

sandpaper means "stiff paper coated with powdered emery or sand". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sandpaper?

sandpaper has 3 syllables: sand-pa-per. The stress falls on "sand". In IPA it is /ˈsændˌpeɪpɚ/.

What is another word for sandpaper?

Close synonyms include emery paper, sand. 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 sandpaper a common word?

sandpaper 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.

What rhymes with sandpaper?

4 words rhyme with sandpaper. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.