gladiolus

Other forms of gladiolus

plural

gladioli

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 gladiolus

What does gladiolus mean?

gladiolus means "any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gladiolus?

gladiolus has 4 syllables: glad-i-o-lus. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˌɡlædiˈoʊləs/.

What is another word for gladiolus?

Close synonyms include gladiola, glad, sword lily, corpus sternum. 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 gladiolus a common word?

gladiolus 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.