fritillary

Other forms of fritillary

plural

fritillaries·

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 fritillary

What does fritillary mean?

fritillary means "any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fritillary?

fritillary has 4 syllables: fri-til-la-ry. The stress falls on "til".

What is another word for fritillary?

Close synonyms include checkered lily. 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 fritillary a common word?

fritillary 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.