watercolor

1. 1.

   paint with watercolors

   Synonymswatercolour

   Broaderpaint

   art

Other forms of watercolor

plural

watercolors·

past tense

watercolorred·

present participle

watercolorring·

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 watercolor

What does watercolor mean?

watercolor means "a painting produced with watercolors". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in watercolor?

watercolor has 4 syllables: wa-ter-col-or. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈwɔtɚˌkʌlɚ/.

What is another word for watercolor?

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

watercolor 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.

What rhymes with watercolor?

4 words rhyme with watercolor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.