emmer

1. 1.

   hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed

   Synonymsstarch wheattwo-grain speltTriticum dicoccum

   Broaderwheat

Other forms of emmer

plural

emmers·

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 emmer

What does emmer mean?

emmer means "hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed".

How many syllables are in emmer?

emmer has 2 syllables: em-mer. The stress falls on "em". In IPA it is /ˈɛmɚ/.

What is another word for emmer?

Close synonyms include starch wheat, two-grain spelt, Triticum dicoccum. 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 emmer a common word?

emmer 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.