blackcap

Other forms of blackcap

plural

blackcaps·

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 blackcap

What does blackcap mean?

blackcap means "raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blackcap?

blackcap has 2 syllables: black-cap. The stress falls on "black".

What is another word for blackcap?

Close synonyms include black raspberry, blackcap raspberry, thimbleberry, Rubus occidentalis, laughing gull. 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 blackcap a common word?

blackcap 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.