soot

Other forms of soot

plural

soots·

past tense

sooted·

present participle

sooting·

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 soot

What does soot mean?

soot means "a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soot?

soot has 1 syllable: soot. In IPA it is /ˈsʊt/.

What is another word for soot?

Close synonyms include carbon black, lampblack, smut, crock. 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 soot a common word?

soot is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.