aquilege

Other forms of aquilege

plural

aquileges·

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 aquilege

What does aquilege mean?

aquilege means "a plant of the genus Aquilegia having irregular showy spurred flowers; north temperate regions especially mountains".

How many syllables are in aquilege?

aquilege has 3 syllables and divides as aq-ui-lege under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for aquilege?

Close synonyms include columbine, aquilegia. 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 aquilege a common word?

aquilege 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.