charcoal

noun/ˈtʃɑrkoʊl/

Frequency rank: #6,963 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

a black material made by burning wood slowly, used for drawing or as fuel.

Illustration for the English word “charcoal”

Example sentence

The artist sketched the portrait using charcoal on thick white paper.

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