cumin

Other forms of cumin

plural

cumins·

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 cumin

What does cumin mean?

cumin means "dwarf Mediterranean annual long cultivated for its aromatic seeds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cumin?

cumin has 2 syllables: cu-min. The stress falls on "cu". In IPA it is /ˈkjumən/.

What is another word for cumin?

Close synonyms include Cuminum cyminum, cumin seed. 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 cumin a common word?

cumin 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 cumin?

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