Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

textile

/ˈtɛk.staɪl/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables
tex-tile
IPA
/ˈtɛk.staɪl/
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or nonwoven.

noun

A non-nudist.

adj

Clothing compulsive.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin textile, substantive use of textilis (“woven”), from texō (“weave”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *tetḱ-, textile

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /ˈtɛk.staɪl/
  • British English: /ˈtɛk.staɪl/

Inflected Forms

textiles (plural) more textile (comparative) most textile (superlative)

Derived Forms

mycotextile nanotextile nontextile textilelike textilism textilist textiloma

Phrases

e-textile textile art textile banana textile cone

Synonyms

fabric material cloth textile

Antonyms

nudist naturist antonym(s) of

Rhymes With

sextile

Questions

How do you pronounce textile?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɛk.staɪl/.
What does textile mean?
Any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or nonwoven.
Where does textile come from?
It is traced to Latin.

How to pronounce textile

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