amaranth

Other forms of amaranth

plural

amaranths·

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 amaranth

What does amaranth mean?

amaranth means "seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in amaranth?

amaranth has 3 syllables: am-a-ranth. The stress falls on "am". In IPA it is /ˈæmɚˌænθ/.

Is amaranth a common word?

amaranth 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.