gooseberry

Other forms of gooseberry

plural

gooseberries·

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 gooseberry

What does gooseberry mean?

gooseberry means "spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gooseberry?

gooseberry has 3 syllables: goose-ber-ry. The stress falls on "goose". In IPA it is /ˈɡusˌbɛɹi/.

What is another word for gooseberry?

Close synonyms include gooseberry bush, Ribes uva-crispa, Ribes grossularia. 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 gooseberry a common word?

gooseberry is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with gooseberry?

16 words rhyme with gooseberry. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.