sulphur

Other forms of sulphur

plural

sulphurs·

past tense

sulphurred·

present participle

sulphurring·

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 sulphur

What does sulphur mean?

sulphur 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 sulphur?

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

What is another word for sulphur?

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

sulphur 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 sulphur?

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