bedstraw

Other forms of bedstraw

plural

bedstraws·

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 bedstraw

What does bedstraw mean?

bedstraw means "any of several plants of the genus Galium".

How many syllables are in bedstraw?

bedstraw has 2 syllables: bed-straw. The stress falls on "bed". In IPA it is /ˈbɛdˌstɹɔ/.

Is bedstraw a common word?

bedstraw 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 bedstraw?

1 word rhymes with bedstraw. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.