checkerberry

Other forms of checkerberry

plural

checkerberries·

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 checkerberry

What does checkerberry mean?

checkerberry means "creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in checkerberry?

checkerberry has 4 syllables: chec-ker-ber-ry. The stress falls on "ker".

What is another word for checkerberry?

Close synonyms include teaberry, wintergreen, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry. 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 checkerberry a common word?

checkerberry 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.