sellotape

Other forms of sellotape

plural

sellotapes·

past tense

sellotaped·

present participle

sellotaping·

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 sellotape

What does sellotape mean?

sellotape means "transparent or semitransparent adhesive tape (trade names Scotch tape and Sellotape) used for sealing or attaching or mending". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sellotape?

sellotape has 3 syllables: sel-lo-tape. The stress falls on "sel".

What is another word for sellotape?

Close synonyms include cellulose tape, Scotch tape, scotch tape. 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 sellotape a common word?

sellotape 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.