gingerroot

Questions about gingerroot

What does gingerroot mean?

gingerroot means "pungent rhizome of the common ginger plant; used fresh as a seasoning especially in Asian cookery".

How many syllables are in gingerroot?

gingerroot has 3 syllables and divides as gin-ger-root 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 gingerroot?

Close synonyms include ginger. 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 gingerroot a common word?

gingerroot 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.