grapevine

Other forms of grapevine

plural

grapevines·

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 grapevine

What does grapevine mean?

grapevine means "gossip spread by spoken communication". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grapevine?

grapevine has 2 syllables: grape-vine. The stress falls on "grape". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹeɪpˌvaɪn/.

What is another word for grapevine?

Close synonyms include pipeline, word of mouth, grape, grape vine. 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 grapevine a common word?

grapevine 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 grapevine?

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