blackwood

Other forms of blackwood

plural

blackwoods·

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 blackwood

What does blackwood mean?

blackwood means "very dark wood of any of several blackwood trees". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blackwood?

blackwood has 2 syllables: blac-kwood. The stress falls on "blac". In IPA it is /ˈblæˌkwʊd/.

What is another word for blackwood?

Close synonyms include blackwood tree. 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 blackwood a common word?

blackwood 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.

What rhymes with blackwood?

3 words rhyme with blackwood. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.