syrup

Other forms of syrup

plural

syrups·

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 syrup

What does syrup mean?

syrup means "a thick sweet sticky liquid".

How many syllables are in syrup?

syrup has 2 syllables: sy-rup. The stress falls on "sy". In IPA it is /ˈsɝəp/.

What is another word for syrup?

Close synonyms include sirup. 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 syrup a common word?

syrup 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.