balsam

Other forms of balsam

plural

balsams·

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 balsam

What does balsam mean?

balsam means "any seed plant yielding balsam". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in balsam?

balsam has 2 syllables: bal-sam. The stress falls on "bal". In IPA it is /ˈbɔlsəm/.

Is balsam a common word?

balsam 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.