garlic

Other forms of garlic

plural

garlics·

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 garlic

What does garlic mean?

garlic means "bulbous herb of southern Europe widely naturalized; bulb breaks up into separate strong-flavored cloves". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in garlic?

garlic has 2 syllables: gar-lic. The stress falls on "gar". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑɹlɪk/.

What is another word for garlic?

Close synonyms include Allium sativum, ail. 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 garlic a common word?

garlic is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.