cypress

Other forms of cypress

plural

cypresses·

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 cypress

What does cypress mean?

cypress means "wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cypress?

cypress has 2 syllables: cy-press. The stress falls on "cy". In IPA it is /ˈsaɪpɹəs/.

What is another word for cypress?

Close synonyms include cypress tree. 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 cypress a common word?

cypress 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 cypress?

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