cayenne

Other forms of cayenne

plural

cayennes·

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 cayenne

What does cayenne mean?

cayenne means "plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cayenne?

cayenne has 2 syllables: ca-yenne. The stress falls on "yenne". In IPA it is /ˌkaɪˈɛn/.

What is another word for cayenne?

Close synonyms include cayenne pepper, chili pepper, chilli pepper, long pepper, jalapeno. 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 cayenne a common word?

cayenne 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.

What rhymes with cayenne?

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