cuckoopint

Other forms of cuckoopint

plural

cuckoopints·

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 cuckoopint

What does cuckoopint mean?

cuckoopint means "common European arum with lanceolate spathe and short purple spadix; emerges in early spring; source of a starch called arum".

How many syllables are in cuckoopint?

cuckoopint has 3 syllables: cuc-koo-pint. The stress falls on "cuc".

What is another word for cuckoopint?

Close synonyms include lords-and-ladies, jack-in-the-pulpit, Arum maculatum. 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 cuckoopint a common word?

cuckoopint 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.