tussah

Questions about tussah

What does tussah mean?

tussah means "oriental moth that produces brownish silk".

How many syllables are in tussah?

tussah has 2 syllables and divides as tus-sah under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tussah?

Close synonyms include tusseh, tussur, tussore, tusser, Antheraea mylitta. 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 tussah a common word?

tussah 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.