cornflower

Other forms of cornflower

plural

cornflowers·

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 cornflower

What does cornflower mean?

cornflower means "plant of southern and southeastern United States grown for its yellow flowers that can be dried". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cornflower?

cornflower has 3 syllables: corn-flo-wer. The stress falls on "corn". In IPA it is /ˈkɔɹnˌflaʊɚ/.

What is another word for cornflower?

Close synonyms include strawflower, Uvularia grandiflora, bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus. 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 cornflower a common word?

cornflower 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.

What rhymes with cornflower?

10 words rhyme with cornflower. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.