texture

Other forms of texture

plural

textures·

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 texture

What does texture mean?

texture means "the feel of a surface or a fabric". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in texture?

texture has 2 syllables: tex-ture. The stress falls on "tex". In IPA it is /ˈtɛkstʃɚ/.

What is another word for texture?

Close synonyms include grain. 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 texture a common word?

texture 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.