water-colour

Questions about water-colour

What does water-colour mean?

water-colour means "water-soluble pigment". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in water-colour?

water-colour has 4 syllables and divides as wa-ter--co-lour 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 water-colour?

Close synonyms include watercolor, water-color, watercolour, watercolor, water-color. 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 water-colour a common word?

water-colour 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.