allspice

Other forms of allspice

plural

allspices·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about allspice

What does allspice mean?

allspice means "aromatic West Indian tree that produces allspice berries". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in allspice?

allspice has 2 syllables: all-spice. The stress falls on "all". In IPA it is /ˈɔlˌspaɪs/.

What is another word for allspice?

Close synonyms include allspice tree, pimento tree, Pimenta dioica. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is allspice a common word?

allspice is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with allspice?

1 word rhymes with allspice. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.