teal

1. 1.

   of a bluish shade of green

   Synonymsbluish greenblue-greencyan

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of teal

plural

teals·

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 teal

What does teal mean?

teal means "a blue-green color or pigment". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in teal?

teal has 1 syllable: teal. In IPA it is /ˈtil/.

What is another word for teal?

Close synonyms include bluish green, blue green, bluish green, blue-green, cyan. 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 teal a common word?

teal 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 teal?

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