turquoise

Other forms of turquoise

plural

turquoises·

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 turquoise

What does turquoise mean?

turquoise means "a blue to grey green mineral consisting of copper aluminum phosphate". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in turquoise?

turquoise has 2 syllables: turq-uoise. The stress falls on "turq". In IPA it is /ˈtɝkwɔɪz/.

What is another word for turquoise?

Close synonyms include greenish blue, aqua, aquamarine, cobalt blue, peacock blue. 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 turquoise a common word?

turquoise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.