Wool

//wʊl//

Synonyms for "wool" (115 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (23)

acetate rayon alpaca angora aralac avisco bast blubber breeze bristle buckskin butter capillament cashmere celanese chemstrand cilium clay cloth coat coir

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corduroy cotton cushion

Strong matches (35)

dacron dough down drapery dynel eiderdown ermine etoffe fabric feather feather bed feathers felt fiber flax fleece floss flue fluff foam

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fur goathair goods hair hemp hide horsehair jute kapok lace lastex linen llama hair mane

Noun(1 words)

fleece

Related words (57)

manila material merino mohair napery near-silk nylon oakum orlon pelt pile pillow plush pubescence pubic hair pudding puff putty raffia rag

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rayon rubber satin seta setula shag silk sisal spandex spun rayon stuff swansdown terylene textile textile fabric texture thistledown thread tissu tissue tussah velon velvet vicara wax weave web weft woof worsted yarn zephyr

Noun(5 words)

plazzy woolen wooler woolie woollen

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

16 relation types

More general

8 entries

animal fiber animal fibre cloth coat fabric material pelage textile

More specific

3 entries

felt tweed worsted

Antonyms

4 entries

cotton nice nylon silk

at location

13 entries

butt clothing factory clothing store craft store fabric shop fabric store old ladies basket sheep sheep farm shirts shop selling warm clothes sweater wool stockpile

coordinate

3 entries

goathair horsehair qiviut

defined as

3 entries

hair fiber of sheep hair of sheep hiar fiber of sheep

derived

133 entries

Shetland wool Wool Bay Wool Wool Woolford abb-wool all cry and no wool all wool and a yard wide andalusian wool angora wool breech wool bullswool burry wool cony wool cotton wool cotton wool ball cotton wool bud

Showing 16 of 133 words.

derived from

1 entries

woolen

distinct from

1 entries

cotton

has context

2 entries

british nz

has property

2 entries

knit into fabric warm and itchy

is a

14 entries

animal fiber coat extruded body part fabric fibrous thing form of clothing material hair fiber ffrom sheep material natural fiber natural fibre naturally flame retardent fiber organic matter protective covering solid animal matter

receives action

2 entries

spun into thread spun into yarn

related to

345 entries

again almost animal animal fiber animal fibre animal fur animal hair animal material animal product ball ball of been been picked been sheared blankets buckles

Showing 16 of 345 words.

similar

1 entries

goathair

used for

10 entries

clothes kint cardigan or sweater knit sweater knit warm socks and sweaters make clothes make sweater make yarn making woollen clothing pulling over eyes sweaters

Translations

236 translations across 139 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

wol noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Albanian

1 entries

lesh noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Ancient Greek

3 entries

εἶρος noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
ἔριον noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
ἔριον noun (cloth or yarn)

Arabic

3 entries

صوف noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
صُوف noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
صُوف noun (cloth or yarn)

Armenian

3 entries

բուրդ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
բուրդ noun (cloth or yarn)
գեղմ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Aromanian

1 entries

lãnã noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Assamese

1 entries

উণ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Asturian

2 entries

llana noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
llana noun (cloth or yarn)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

yun noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Bactrian

1 entries

παμανο noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Baluchi

1 entries

پژم noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Bashkir

1 entries

йөн noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Basque

2 entries

ardile noun (cloth or yarn)
artile noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Belarusian

4 entries

во́ўна noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
во́ўна noun (cloth or yarn)
пра́жа noun (cloth or yarn)
шэрсць noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Bengali

3 entries

উল noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
ঊণ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
মেষলোম noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Breton

3 entries

gloan noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
gloanaj noun (cloth or yarn)
gloanenn noun (cloth or yarn)

Bulgarian

3 entries

въ́лна noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
вълна́ noun (cloth or yarn)
пре́жда noun (cloth or yarn)

Burmese

2 entries

သိုးမွေး noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
သိုးမွေး noun (cloth or yarn)

Catalan

1 entries

llana noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

خوری noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᎤᏩᏂ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries

毛線 /毛线 noun (cloth or yarn)
羊毛 noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
羊毛 noun (cloth or yarn)

Church Slavic

1 entries

вльна noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Cornish

1 entries

gwlan noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Corsican

1 entries

lana noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Czech

3 entries

příze noun (cloth or yarn)
vlna noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
vlna noun (cloth or yarn)

Dalmatian

1 entries

luona noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Danish

1 entries

uld noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Dari

1 entries

پَشْم noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Dutch

2 entries

wol noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
wol noun (cloth or yarn)

Eastern Mari

1 entries

меж noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Esperanto

1 entries

lano noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Estonian

2 entries

vill noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
vill noun (cloth or yarn)

Evenki

1 entries

инңакта noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Fala

2 entries

lan (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
lana (Lagarteiru) noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Finnish

3 entries

villa noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
villa noun (cloth or yarn)
villa noun (anything with a texture like that of wool)

Franco-Provençal

1 entries

lana noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

French

2 entries

laine noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
laine noun (cloth or yarn)

Friulian

1 entries

lane noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Galician

1 entries

la noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Ge'ez

1 entries

ፀምር noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Georgian

3 entries

მატყლი noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
შალი noun (cloth or yarn)
შალის ქსოვილი noun (cloth or yarn)

German

2 entries

Wolle noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
Wolle noun (cloth or yarn)

Gothic

2 entries

𐍅𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌰 noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
𐍅𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌰 noun (cloth or yarn)

Greek

2 entries

μαλλί noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
μαλλί noun (cloth or yarn)

Hausa

2 entries

ulu noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
ulu noun (cloth or yarn)

Hebrew

1 entries

צֶמֶר noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Hindi

3 entries

ऊन noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
ऊन noun (cloth or yarn)
ऊनी noun (anything with a texture like that of wool)

Hungarian

2 entries

gyapjú noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
gyapjú noun (cloth or yarn)

Icelandic

1 entries

ull noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Indonesian

1 entries

wol noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Ingrian

1 entries

villa noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Interlingua

1 entries

lana noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Iranian Persian

1 entries

پَشْم noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Irish

1 entries

olann noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Istro-Romanian

2 entries

lărĕ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
lărę noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Italian

2 entries

lana noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
lana noun (cloth or yarn)

Japanese

3 entries

ウール noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
羊毛 noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
羊毛 noun (cloth or yarn)

Kalasha

1 entries

paṣ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Kazakh

1 entries

жүн noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Khmer

3 entries

រោមចៀម noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
រោមចៀម noun (cloth or yarn)
ឧណ្ណា noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Khowar

1 entries

پوݰپ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Korean

4 entries

양모 noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
양모 noun (cloth or yarn)
털실 noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
털실 noun (cloth or yarn)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

жүн noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Lao

2 entries

ຂົນ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
ຂົນສັດ noun (cloth or yarn)

Latin

1 entries

lāna noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Latvian

2 entries

dzija noun (cloth or yarn)
vilna noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Laz

1 entries

მონტკორი noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Lithuanian

2 entries

vilna noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
vilnonas noun (cloth or yarn)

Lower Sorbian

2 entries

wałma noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
wałma noun (cloth or yarn)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

Woll noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Macedonian

3 entries

во́лна noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
во́лница noun (cloth or yarn)
пре́ѓа noun (cloth or yarn)

Malagasy

1 entries

volonondry noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Malay

2 entries

suf noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
wul noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Malayalam

1 entries

കമ്പിളി noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Maltese

1 entries

suf noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Megleno-Romanian

1 entries

lǫnă noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Mingrelian

1 entries

მონტყორი noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Mongolian

2 entries

ноос noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
ᠨᠣᠣᠰᠤ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Mycenaean Greek

2 entries

𐀔𐀪 noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
𐀔𐀪 noun (cloth or yarn)

Māori

1 entries

wūru noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Nanai

1 entries

сингакта noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Navajo

4 entries

Shádiʼááhdę́ę́ʼ tłʼízí bighaaʼ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
aghaaʼ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
aghaaʼ noun (cloth or yarn)
dibé bighaaʼ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Norman

2 entries

laine noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
laine noun (cloth or yarn)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

hirî noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

ull noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
ull noun (cloth or yarn)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

ull noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
ull noun (cloth or yarn)

Occitan

1 entries

lana noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Odia

1 entries

ଉଲ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Old Galician-Portuguese

1 entries

lãa noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Ossetian

2 entries

фист noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
фӕсм noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Pannonian Rusyn

2 entries

волна noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
волна noun (cloth or yarn)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

Woll noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Polish

3 entries

przędza noun (cloth or yarn)
wełna noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
wełna noun (cloth or yarn)

Portuguese

2 entries

lã noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
lã noun (cloth or yarn)

Quechua

1 entries

millwa noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Romanian

2 entries

lână noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
lână noun (cloth or yarn)

Romansch

4 entries

lana noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
langa noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
launa noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
làna noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Russian

3 entries

пря́жа noun (cloth or yarn)
шерсть noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
шерсть noun (cloth or yarn)

Sardinian

1 entries

lana noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Scots

1 entries

oo noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries

clòimh noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
clòimh noun (cloth or yarn)
olann noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
olann noun (cloth or yarn)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

predja noun (cloth or yarn)
prtilica noun (cloth or yarn)
vȕna noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
ву̏на noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Sicilian

1 entries

lana noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Slovak

3 entries

priadza noun (cloth or yarn)
vlna noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
vlna noun (cloth or yarn)

Slovene

1 entries

volna noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Somali

1 entries

suuf noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Southern Altai

1 entries

јум noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Spanish

2 entries

lana noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
lana noun (cloth or yarn)

Svan

1 entries

მა̈ტყ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Swahili

1 entries

sufu noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Swedish

2 entries

ull noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
ylle noun (cloth or yarn)

Sylheti

1 entries

ꠃꠟ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Tagalog

1 entries

lana noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Tajik

1 entries

пашм noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Tarifit

1 entries

taḍuft noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Tashelhit

1 entries

taḍutt noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Tatar

1 entries

йон noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Telugu

2 entries

ఉన్ని noun (cloth or yarn)
బొచ్చు noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Thai

4 entries

ขน noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
ขนแกะ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
ผ้าขนสัตว์ noun (cloth or yarn)
สักหลาด noun (cloth or yarn)

Tibetan

1 entries

བལ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Tigrinya

1 entries

ጸምሪ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

wul noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Turkish

1 entries

yün noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Turkmen

1 entries

ýüň noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Udi

1 entries

ха noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Ukrainian

4 entries

во́вна noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
во́вна noun (cloth or yarn)
пря́жа noun (cloth or yarn)
шерсть noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Urdu

2 entries

اُون noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
اُون noun (cloth or yarn)

Uyghur

4 entries

جاۋىغا noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
كۈزەم noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
موي noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
يۇڭ noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Uzbek

1 entries

jun noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Venetan

1 entries

łana noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Vietnamese

3 entries

len noun (hair of sheep, etc.)
len noun (cloth or yarn)
lông noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Volapük

1 entries

lain noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Walloon

1 entries

linne noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Welsh

1 entries

gwlân noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Western Mari

1 entries

миж noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Yiddish

1 entries

וואָל noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Zazaki

1 entries

peşmi noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Zulu

1 entries

uvolo noun (hair of sheep, etc.)

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

To record something, they used knotted cords made of the wool of the llama or alpaca.

Source: tatoeba (25205)

You cannot pull the wool over my eyes.

Source: tatoeba (25523)

Mr Brown is a wool merchant.

Source: tatoeba (34259)

Sheep provide us with wool.

Source: tatoeba (34763)

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.