chrysanthemum

Other forms of chrysanthemum

plural

chrysanthemums·

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 chrysanthemum

What does chrysanthemum mean?

chrysanthemum means "the flower of a chrysanthemum plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chrysanthemum?

chrysanthemum has 4 syllables: chry-san-the-mum. The stress falls on "san". In IPA it is /kɹɪˈsænθəməm/.

Is chrysanthemum a common word?

chrysanthemum 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.