shellac

Other forms of shellac

plural

shellacs·

past tense or participle

shellacked

present participle

shellacking

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 shellac

What does shellac mean?

shellac means "lac purified by heating and filtering; usually in thin orange or yellow flakes but sometimes bleached white". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shellac?

shellac has 2 syllables: shel-lac. The stress falls on "shel". In IPA it is /ˈʃɛˌlæk/.

What is another word for shellac?

Close synonyms include shellac varnish, shellack. 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 shellac a common word?

shellac 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 shellac?

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