buckwheat

Other forms of buckwheat

plural

buckwheats·

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 buckwheat

What does buckwheat mean?

buckwheat means "a member of the genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in buckwheat?

buckwheat has 2 syllables: buck-wheat. The stress falls on "buck". In IPA it is /ˈbʌˌkwit/.

What is another word for buckwheat?

Close synonyms include Polygonum fagopyrum, Fagopyrum esculentum. 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 buckwheat a common word?

buckwheat 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.