viscose

1. 1.

   a cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda

   Synonymscellulose xanthate

   Broadercellulose esterxanthate
2. 2.

   a rayon fabric made from viscose (cellulose xanthate) fibers

   Synonymsviscose rayon

   Broaderrayon

Other forms of viscose

plural

viscoses·

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 viscose

What does viscose mean?

viscose means "a cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in viscose?

viscose has 2 syllables: vi-scose. The stress falls on "vi".

What is another word for viscose?

Close synonyms include cellulose xanthate, viscose rayon. 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 viscose a common word?

viscose 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.