anemone

Other forms of anemone

plural

anemones·

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 anemone

What does anemone mean?

anemone means "any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anemone?

anemone has 3 syllables: an-e-mone. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈænɪˌmoʊn/.

What is another word for anemone?

Close synonyms include windflower, sea anemone. 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 anemone a common word?

anemone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 anemone?

5 words rhyme with anemone. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.