clover

Other forms of clover

plural

clovers·

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 clover

What does clover mean?

clover means "a plant of the genus Trifolium".

How many syllables are in clover?

clover has 2 syllables: clo-ver. The stress falls on "clo". In IPA it is /ˈkloʊvɚ/.

What is another word for clover?

Close synonyms include trefoil. 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 clover a common word?

clover 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.