filbert

Other forms of filbert

plural

filberts·

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 filbert

What does filbert mean?

filbert means "small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in filbert?

filbert has 2 syllables: fil-bert. The stress falls on "fil". In IPA it is /ˈfɪlbɚt/.

What is another word for filbert?

Close synonyms include cobnut, Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis, hazelnut, cobnut. 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 filbert a common word?

filbert 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.