arrowroot

Other forms of arrowroot

plural

arrowroots·

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 arrowroot

What does arrowroot mean?

arrowroot means "a nutritive starch obtained from the root of the arrowroot plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in arrowroot?

arrowroot has 3 syllables: ar-ro-wroot. The stress falls on "ar". In IPA it is /ˈɛɹoʊˌɹut/.

What is another word for arrowroot?

Close synonyms include American arrowroot, obedience plant, Maranta arundinaceae, achira, indian shot. 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 arrowroot a common word?

arrowroot 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.

What rhymes with arrowroot?

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