sugar

1. 1.

   sweeten with sugar

   “sugar your tea”

   Synonymssaccharify

   Broadersweeten

Other forms of sugar

plural

sugars·

past tense

sugarred·

present participle

sugarring·

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 sugar

What does sugar mean?

sugar means "a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sugar?

sugar has 2 syllables: sug-ar. The stress falls on "sug". In IPA it is /ˈʃʊɡɚ/.

What is another word for sugar?

Close synonyms include refined sugar, carbohydrate, saccharide, boodle, bread. 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 sugar a common word?

sugar is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.