dogwood

Other forms of dogwood

plural

dogwoods·

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 dogwood

What does dogwood mean?

dogwood means "a tree of shrub of the genus Cornus often having showy bracts resembling flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dogwood?

dogwood has 2 syllables: do-gwood. The stress falls on "do". In IPA it is /ˈdɔˌɡwʊd/.

What is another word for dogwood?

Close synonyms include dogwood tree, cornel. 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 dogwood a common word?

dogwood 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 dogwood?

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