chicory

Other forms of chicory

plural

chicories·

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 chicory

What does chicory mean?

chicory means "the dried root of the chicory plant: used as a coffee substitute". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chicory?

chicory has 3 syllables: chi-co-ry. The stress falls on "chi".

What is another word for chicory?

Close synonyms include chicory root, succory, chicory plant, Cichorium intybus, chicory root. 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 chicory a common word?

chicory 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.