sepia

Other forms of sepia

plural

sepias·

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 sepia

What does sepia mean?

sepia means "a shade of brown with a tinge of red". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sepia?

sepia has 3 syllables: se-pi-a. The stress falls on "se". In IPA it is /ˈsipiə/.

What is another word for sepia?

Close synonyms include reddish brown, burnt sienna, Venetian red, mahogany, genus Sepia. 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 sepia a common word?

sepia 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.