anise

Other forms of anise

plural

anises·

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 anise

What does anise mean?

anise means "native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anise?

anise has 2 syllables: an-ise. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈænəs/.

What is another word for anise?

Close synonyms include anise plant, Pimpinella anisum, aniseed, anise seed. 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 anise a common word?

anise 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 anise?

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