coreopsis

Other forms of coreopsis

plural

coreopsises·

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 coreopsis

What does coreopsis mean?

coreopsis means "any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America".

How many syllables are in coreopsis?

coreopsis has 4 syllables and divides as co-re-op-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for coreopsis?

Close synonyms include tickseed, tickweed, tick-weed. 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 coreopsis a common word?

coreopsis 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.