sirloin

Other forms of sirloin

plural

sirloins·

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 sirloin

What does sirloin mean?

sirloin means "the portion of the loin (especially of beef) just in front of the rump".

How many syllables are in sirloin?

sirloin has 2 syllables and divides as sir-loin under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is sirloin a common word?

sirloin 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.