capsicum

Other forms of capsicum

plural

capsicums·

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 capsicum

What does capsicum mean?

capsicum means "any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in capsicum?

capsicum has 3 syllables: cap-si-cum. The stress falls on "cap".

What is another word for capsicum?

Close synonyms include pepper, capsicum pepper plant, genus Capsicum. 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 capsicum a common word?

capsicum 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.