arum

Other forms of arum

plural

arums·

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 arum

What does arum mean?

arum means "starch resembling sago that is obtained from cuckoopint root". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in arum?

arum has 2 syllables: ar-um. The stress falls on "ar". In IPA it is /ˈɛɹəm/.

What is another word for arum?

Close synonyms include aroid. 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 arum a common word?

arum 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.