cress

Other forms of cress

plural

cresses·

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 cress

What does cress mean?

cress means "any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cress?

cress has 1 syllable: cress. In IPA it is /ˈkɹɛs/.

What is another word for cress?

Close synonyms include cress plant. 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 cress a common word?

cress 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.

What rhymes with cress?

1 word rhymes with cress. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.