groundnut

Other forms of groundnut

plural

groundnuts·

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 groundnut

What does groundnut mean?

groundnut means "a North American vine with fragrant blossoms and edible tubers; important food crop of Native Americans". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in groundnut?

groundnut has 2 syllables: ground-nut. The stress falls on "ground". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹaʊndˌnʌt/.

What is another word for groundnut?

Close synonyms include groundnut vine, Indian potato, potato bean, wild bean, Apios americana. 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 groundnut a common word?

groundnut 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.

What rhymes with groundnut?

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