stainless

Other forms of stainless

plural

stainlesses·

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 stainless

What does stainless mean?

stainless means "steel containing chromium that makes it resistant to corrosion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stainless?

stainless has 2 syllables: stain-less. The stress falls on "stain". In IPA it is /ˈsteɪnləs/.

What is another word for stainless?

Close synonyms include stainless steel, chromium steel, unstained, unsullied, untainted. 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 stainless a common word?

stainless 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.