bayberry

Other forms of bayberry

plural

bayberries·

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 bayberry

What does bayberry mean?

bayberry means "West Indian tree; source of bay rum". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bayberry?

bayberry has 3 syllables: bay-ber-ry. The stress falls on "bay".

What is another word for bayberry?

Close synonyms include bay-rum tree, Jamaica bayberry, wild cinnamon, Pimenta acris, candleberry. 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 bayberry a common word?

bayberry 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.