fireweed

Other forms of fireweed

plural

fireweeds·

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 fireweed

What does fireweed mean?

fireweed means "tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fireweed?

fireweed has 3 syllables: fi-re-weed. The stress falls on "fi". In IPA it is /ˈfaɪɚˌwid/.

What is another word for fireweed?

Close synonyms include giant willowherb, rosebay willowherb, wickup, Epilobium angustifolium, Erechtites hieracifolia. 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 fireweed a common word?

fireweed 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 fireweed?

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