sumac

Other forms of sumac

plural

sumacs·

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 sumac

What does sumac mean?

sumac means "wood of a sumac". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sumac?

sumac has 2 syllables: su-mac. The stress falls on "su". In IPA it is /ˈsumæk/.

What is another word for sumac?

Close synonyms include sumach, shumac. 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 sumac a common word?

sumac is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.