vinegar

Other forms of vinegar

plural

vinegars·

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 vinegar

What does vinegar mean?

vinegar means "sour-tasting liquid produced usually by oxidation of the alcohol in wine or cider and used as a condiment or food preservative". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vinegar?

vinegar has 3 syllables: vin-e-gar. The stress falls on "vin". In IPA it is /ˈvɪnəɡɚ/.

What is another word for vinegar?

Close synonyms include acetum. 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 vinegar a common word?

vinegar 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.