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mylar

/ˈmaɪlɑɹ/noun

mylar is a noun meaning “A polyester film” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-Y-L-A-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mylar is mylars.

What does mylar mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A polyester film.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce mylar?

  • US /ˈmaɪlɑɹ/

Mylar has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of mylar

  • mylars plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is mylar?

Mylar appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does mylar come from?

From a trademark.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).