sheepskin

Other forms of sheepskin

plural

sheepskins·

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 sheepskin

What does sheepskin mean?

sheepskin means "tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sheepskin?

sheepskin has 2 syllables: sheep-skin. The stress falls on "sheep". In IPA it is /ˈʃipˌskɪn/.

What is another word for sheepskin?

Close synonyms include fleece, parchment, lambskin, diploma. 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 sheepskin a common word?

sheepskin 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 sheepskin?

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