gayfeather

Other forms of gayfeather

plural

gayfeathers·

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 gayfeather

What does gayfeather mean?

gayfeather means "any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads".

How many syllables are in gayfeather?

gayfeather has 4 syllables and divides as ga-y-fea-ther 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 gayfeather?

Close synonyms include blazing star, button snakeroot, gay-feather, snakeroot. 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 gayfeather a common word?

gayfeather 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.