gentian

Other forms of gentian

plural

gentians·

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 gentian

What does gentian mean?

gentian means "any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis".

How many syllables are in gentian?

gentian has 2 syllables: gen-tian. The stress falls on "gen". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɛnʃən/.

Is gentian a common word?

gentian 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.