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transferware

/ˈtɹænsfə(ɹ)ˌwɛə(ɹ)/noun

transferware is a noun meaning “A style of ceramics decorated by transfer printing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-R-A-N-S-F-E-R-W-A-R-E, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of transferware is transferwares.

What does transferware mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A style of ceramics decorated by transfer printing.

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

How do you pronounce transferware?

  • /ˈtɹænsfə(ɹ)ˌwɛə(ɹ)/
  • /ˈtɹɑːnsfə(ɹ)ˌwɛə(ɹ)/

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

Forms of transferware

  • transferwares plural

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

How common is transferware?

Transferware appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 transferware come from?

From transfer + -ware.

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