buckeye

Other forms of buckeye

plural

buckeyes·

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 buckeye

What does buckeye mean?

buckeye means "the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buckeye?

buckeye has 2 syllables: buc-keye. The stress falls on "buc". In IPA it is /ˈbʌˌkaɪ/.

What is another word for buckeye?

Close synonyms include horse chestnut, conker, horse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum, Ohioan. 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 buckeye a common word?

buckeye 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 buckeye?

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