poplin
/ˈpɒplɪn/noun
poplin is a noun meaning “A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted; used especially for women's dresses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-P-L-I-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of poplin is poplins.
What does poplin mean?
noun
- 1
A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted; used especially for women's dresses.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce poplin?
- /ˈpɒplɪn/
Poplin 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-poplin.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of poplin
- poplins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is poplin?
Poplin appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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).
Poplin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense certain kind of fabric:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | popeline |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does poplin come from?
An alteration (taken as related to Pope) of French papeline, a distortion of Poperinge, a town in Flanders which was a centre for textile production.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).