charlock

Questions about charlock

What does charlock mean?

charlock means "weedy Eurasian plant often a pest in grain fields".

How many syllables are in charlock?

charlock has 2 syllables and divides as char-lock under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for charlock?

Close synonyms include field mustard, wild mustard, chadlock, Brassica kaber, Sinapis arvensis. 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 charlock a common word?

charlock 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.