buttercup

Other forms of buttercup

plural

buttercups·

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 buttercup

What does buttercup mean?

buttercup means "any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus".

How many syllables are in buttercup?

buttercup has 3 syllables: but-ter-cup. The stress falls on "but". In IPA it is /ˈbʌtɚˌkʌp/.

What is another word for buttercup?

Close synonyms include butterflower, butter-flower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup. 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 buttercup a common word?

buttercup is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 buttercup?

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