esparcet

Other forms of esparcet

plural

esparcets·

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 esparcet

What does esparcet mean?

esparcet means "Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods; naturalized in Britain and North America grasslands on calcareous soils; important forage crop and source of honey in Britain".

How many syllables are in esparcet?

esparcet has 3 syllables and divides as e-spar-cet under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for esparcet?

Close synonyms include sainfoin, sanfoin, holy clover, Onobrychis viciifolia, Onobrychis viciaefolia. 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 esparcet a common word?

esparcet 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.