solferino

Other forms of solferino

plural

solferinoes·

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 solferino

What does solferino mean?

solferino means "a pink dye that was discovered in 1859, the year a battle was fought at Solferino". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in solferino?

solferino has 4 syllables: sol-fe-ri-no. The stress falls on "fe".

What is another word for solferino?

Close synonyms include purplish pink, battle of Solferino. 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 solferino a common word?

solferino 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.