celery

Other forms of celery

plural

celeries·

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 celery

What does celery mean?

celery means "widely cultivated herb with aromatic leaf stalks that are eaten raw or cooked". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in celery?

celery has 3 syllables: cel-e-ry. The stress falls on "cel". In IPA it is /ˈsɛlɚi/.

What is another word for celery?

Close synonyms include cultivated celery, Apium graveolens dulce. 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 celery a common word?

celery 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.