angelica

Other forms of angelica

plural

angelicas·

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 angelica

What does angelica mean?

angelica means "any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in angelica?

angelica has 4 syllables: an-gel-i-ca. The stress falls on "gel". In IPA it is /ænˈdʒɛlɪkə/.

What is another word for angelica?

Close synonyms include angelique. 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 angelica a common word?

angelica is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.