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underglaze

noun, verb

underglaze is spelled U-N-D-E-R-G-L-A-Z-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, underglaze means “A decorative slip applied to the surface of pottery before glazing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of underglaze is underglazes.

How many letters and syllables are in underglaze?

Letters10: U-N-D-E-R-G-L-A-Z-E
In writingabout once in every 19 million words; the 131,834th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is underglaze?

Underglaze appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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).

How do you pronounce underglaze?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-underglaze.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of underglaze

  • underglazes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • underglazing participle, present
  • underglazed participle, past

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

What does underglaze mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A decorative slip applied to the surface of pottery before glazing.

verb

  1. 1

    To apply a decorative slip to the surface of pottery before glazing.

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

Where does underglaze come from?

From under- + glaze.

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

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