cinnamon

Other forms of cinnamon

plural

cinnamons·

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 cinnamon

What does cinnamon mean?

cinnamon means "aromatic bark used as a spice". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cinnamon?

cinnamon has 3 syllables: cin-na-mon. The stress falls on "cin". In IPA it is /ˈsɪnəmən/.

What is another word for cinnamon?

Close synonyms include cinnamon bark, Ceylon cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum. 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 cinnamon a common word?

cinnamon 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.