bluegrass

Other forms of bluegrass

plural

bluegrasses·

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 bluegrass

What does bluegrass mean?

bluegrass means "any of various grasses of the genus Poa". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bluegrass?

bluegrass has 2 syllables: blue-grass. The stress falls on "blue". In IPA it is /ˈbluˌɡɹæs/.

What is another word for bluegrass?

Close synonyms include blue grass, Bluegrass Country, Bluegrass Region. 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 bluegrass a common word?

bluegrass 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 bluegrass?

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