brachychiton

Questions about brachychiton

What does brachychiton mean?

brachychiton means "Australian trees (usually with swollen trunks)".

How many syllables are in brachychiton?

brachychiton has 4 syllables and divides as bra-chy-chi-ton under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for brachychiton?

Close synonyms include genus Brachychiton. 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 brachychiton a common word?

brachychiton 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.