butterweed

Other forms of butterweed

plural

butterweeds·

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 butterweed

What does butterweed mean?

butterweed means "American ragwort with yellow flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in butterweed?

butterweed has 3 syllables: but-ter-weed. The stress falls on "but".

What is another word for butterweed?

Close synonyms include ragwort, Senecio glabellus. 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 butterweed a common word?

butterweed 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.