Sulfur is used to make matches.
Source: tatoeba (325500)
Sulfur
/ˈsʌl.fɚ/
Synonyms for "sulfur" (14 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: alabaster, asphalt, atomic number 16, brimstone, color.
- Sentence evidence is available for sulfur, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from derived_reverse, wordnet, opengloss.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "sulfur".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "sulfur"
Keep "sulfur" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "sulfur" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "sulfur", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "sulfur" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
6 entriesMore specific
7 entriesCollocations
6 entrieselemental sulfursulfur cyclesulfur dioxide emissionssulfur metabolismsulfur-containing amino acidssulfuric acid
Inflections
2 entriesDerivations
5 entriesTranslations
182 translations across 137 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- swael noun (element)
- swawel noun (element)
Albanian
1 entries- sulfur noun (element)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- θεῖον noun (element)
Arabic
3 entries- كبريت noun (element)
- كَبريت noun (element)
- كِبْرِيت noun (element)
Armenian
1 entries- ծծումբ noun (element)
Aromanian
2 entries- scljifur noun (element)
- teafi noun (element)
Assamese
1 entries- গন্ধক noun (element)
Asturian
1 entries- azufre noun (element)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kükürd noun (element)
Bashkir
1 entries- көкөрт noun (element)
Basque
1 entries- sufre noun (element)
Belarusian
1 entries- се́ра noun (element)
Bengali
1 entries- গন্ধক noun (element)
Bilba
1 entries- balilang noun (element)
Breton
1 entries- soufr noun (element)
Buginese
1 entries- belérang noun (element)
Bulgarian
1 entries- ся́ра noun (element)
Burmese
1 entries- ကန့် noun (element)
Catalan
1 entries- sofre noun (element)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- گۆگِرد noun (element)
Central Melanau
1 entries- melireng noun (element)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 硫 noun (element)
- 硫黄 noun (element)
Chuvash
1 entries- кӳкӗрт noun (element)
Cornish
2 entries- loskven noun (element)
- sulfur noun (element)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- kükürt noun (element)
Czech
1 entries- síra noun (element)
Danish
1 entries- svovl noun (element)
Dutch
1 entries- zwavel noun (element)
Erzya
1 entries- палыкандал noun (element)
Esperanto
1 entries- sulfuro noun (element)
Estonian
1 entries- väävel noun (element)
Faroese
1 entries- svávul noun (element)
Finnish
1 entries- rikki noun (element)
French
1 entries- soufre noun (element)
Friulian
1 entries- solfar noun (element)
Galician
4 entries- arxofre noun (element)
- enxofre noun (element)
- xofre noun (element)
- xufre noun (element)
Georgian
1 entries- გოგირდი noun (element)
German
1 entries- Schwefel noun (element)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌱𐌻𐍃 noun (element)
Greek
1 entries- θείο noun (element)
Gujarati
1 entries- ગંધક noun (element)
Hebrew
1 entries- גָּפְרִית noun (element)
Hindi
1 entries- गन्धक noun (element)
Hungarian
1 entries- kén noun (element)
Icelandic
1 entries- brennisteinn noun (element)
Ido
1 entries- sulfo noun (element)
Indonesian
2 entries- belerang noun (element)
- sulfur noun (element)
Ingrian
1 entries- rikki noun (element)
Interlingua
1 entries- sulfure noun (element)
Irish
2 entries- ruibh noun (element)
- sulfar noun (element)
Italian
1 entries- zolfo noun (element)
Japanese
1 entries- 硫黄 noun (element)
Javanese
1 entries- ꦮ꧀ꦭꦶꦫꦁ noun (element)
Kashubian
1 entries- sarka noun (element)
Kazakh
1 entries- күкірт noun (element)
Khmer
1 entries- ស្ពាន់ធ័រ noun (element)
Khün
2 entries- ᨣ᩶ᩤ᩠ᨶ noun (element)
- ᨾᩣ᩠ᨯ noun (element)
Korean
4 entries- 석유황 noun (element)
- 유황 noun (element)
- 황 noun (element)
- 황아 noun (element)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- күкүрт noun (element)
Lao
2 entries- ກຳມະຖັນ noun (element)
- ມາດ noun (element)
Latin
3 entries- sulfur noun (element)
- sulphur noun (element)
- sulpur noun (element)
Latvian
1 entries- sērs noun (element)
Lisu
1 entries- ꓧꓪꓼ noun (element)
Lithuanian
1 entries- siera noun (element)
Low German
2 entries- Svävel noun (element)
- Swevel noun (element)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Schwiefel noun (element)
Lü
1 entries- ᦙᦱᧆ noun (element)
Macedonian
1 entries- сулфур noun (element)
Malagasy
1 entries- solifara noun (element)
Malay
2 entries- belerang noun (element)
- sulfur noun (element)
Malayalam
2 entries- ഗന്ധകം noun (element)
- സൾഫർ noun (element)
Maltese
1 entries- kubrit noun (element)
Manx
1 entries- sulfur noun (element)
Marathi
1 entries- गंधक noun (element)
Middle English
1 entries- sulphur noun (element)
Middle French
1 entries- soufre noun (element)
Mongolian
1 entries- хүхэр noun (element)
Māori
3 entries- ohaki noun (element)
- pungatara noun (element)
- pūngāwhā noun (element)
Navajo
1 entries- łeetsoii noun (element)
Ngaju
1 entries- barirang noun (element)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- kewkurd noun (element)
- kirkût noun (element)
Northern Thai
1 entries- ᨾᩣ᩠ᨯ noun (element)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- svovel noun (element)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- svovel noun (element)
Occitan
2 entries- sofre noun (element)
- solpre noun (element)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- жоупелъ noun (element)
Old English
1 entries- swefl noun (element)
Old French
1 entries- sulfre noun (element)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- كبریت noun (element)
- كوكرد noun (element)
Pashto
2 entries- سلفر noun (element)
- ګوګړ noun (element)
Persian
2 entries- کبریت noun (element)
- گوگرد noun (element)
Polish
1 entries- siarka noun (element)
Portuguese
1 entries- enxofre noun (element)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਗੰਧਕ noun (element)
Romanian
2 entries- pucioasă noun (element)
- sulf noun (element)
Russian
1 entries- се́ра noun (element)
Sanskrit
1 entries- गन्धक noun (element)
Sardinian
3 entries- súlfaru noun (element)
- súlfuru noun (element)
- súrfuru noun (element)
Scottish Gaelic
3 entries- pronnasdail noun (element)
- pronnasg noun (element)
- pronnastan noun (element)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- sumpor noun (element)
- сумпор noun (element)
Shan
1 entries- ၵၢၼ်ႉ noun (element)
Sicilian
2 entries- suffuru noun (element)
- sùrfuru noun (element)
Sinhalese
2 entries- ගෙන්දගම් noun (element)
- සල්ෆර් noun (element)
Slovak
1 entries- síra noun (element)
Slovene
1 entries- žveplo noun (element)
Southern Altai
1 entries- кӱӱрт noun (element)
Spanish
1 entries- azufre noun (element)
Sundanese
1 entries- walirang noun (element)
Swahili
2 entries- kiberiti noun (element)
- salfa noun (element)
Swedish
1 entries- svavel noun (element)
Tae'
1 entries- balirang noun (element)
Tagalog
2 entries- asupre noun (element)
- sangyawa noun (element)
Tai Dam
1 entries- ꪬꪸꪣꪎꪲꪉ noun (element)
Tajik
1 entries- гӯгирд noun (element)
Taliabu
1 entries- walirang noun (element)
Tamil
1 entries- கந்தகம் noun (element)
Tatar
1 entries- күкерт noun (element)
Tausug
1 entries- maylang noun (element)
Ternate
1 entries- walirang noun (element)
Tetum
1 entries- baliran noun (element)
Thai
3 entries- กำมะถัน noun (element)
- ซัลเฟอร์ noun (element)
- มาศ noun (element)
Tibetan
1 entries- མུ་ཟི noun (element)
Turkish
1 entries- kükürt noun (element)
Turkmen
1 entries- kükürt noun (element)
Ukrainian
1 entries- сі́рка noun (element)
Urdu
2 entries- کبریت noun (element)
- گندھک noun (element)
Uyghur
1 entries- گۈڭگۈرت noun (element)
Uzbek
2 entries- oltingugurt noun (element)
- олтингугурт noun (element)
Vietnamese
1 entries- lưu huỳnh noun (element)
Volapük
1 entries- sulfin noun (element)
Welsh
1 entries- sylffwr noun (element)
West-Frisian
1 entries- swevel noun (element)
Wolio
1 entries- walira noun (element)
Yakan
1 entries- meylang noun (element)
Yiddish
1 entries- שוועבל noun (element)
Yoruba
4 entries- imí-òòrùn noun (element)
- imí-òṣùmàrè noun (element)
- imí-ọjọ́ noun (element)
- sọ́ọ́fọ̀ noun (element)
Zhuang
1 entries- vuengzcungq noun (element)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
Sulfur burns with a blue flame.
Source: tatoeba (325501)
Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, sulfur and selenium are nonmetals.
Source: tatoeba (1555658)
Our atmosphere contains 21% oxygen, which is necessary for us to breathe, 78% nitrogen, and 0.9% argon. The other 0.1% consists of water vapor, carbon dioxide, neon, methane, krypton, helium, xenon, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and ozone.
Source: tatoeba (3955495)
Showing 4 of 17 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "sulfur"?
Closest matches include alabaster, asphalt, atomic number 16, brimstone, color.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "sulfur"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.