dewberry

Other forms of dewberry

plural

dewberries·

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 dewberry

What does dewberry mean?

dewberry means "any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of North America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dewberry?

dewberry has 3 syllables: dew-ber-ry. The stress falls on "dew". In IPA it is /ˈduˌbɛɹi/.

What is another word for dewberry?

Close synonyms include dewberry bush, running blackberry. 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 dewberry a common word?

dewberry 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 dewberry?

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