sulfur

Other forms of sulfur

plural

sulfurs·

past tense

sulfurred·

present participle

sulfurring·

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 sulfur

What does sulfur mean?

sulfur means "an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sulfur?

sulfur has 2 syllables: sul-fur. The stress falls on "sul". In IPA it is /ˈsʌlfɚ/.

What is another word for sulfur?

Close synonyms include S, sulphur, atomic number 16, sulphur. 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 sulfur a common word?

sulfur 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.

What rhymes with sulfur?

1 word rhymes with sulfur. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.