gillyflower

Other forms of gillyflower

plural

gillyflowers·

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 gillyflower

What does gillyflower mean?

gillyflower means "any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gillyflower?

gillyflower has 4 syllables: gil-ly-flo-wer. The stress falls on "ly".

What is another word for gillyflower?

Close synonyms include stock, carnation, clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus. 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 gillyflower a common word?

gillyflower 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.