hackberry

Other forms of hackberry

plural

hackberries·

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 hackberry

What does hackberry mean?

hackberry means "any of various trees of the genus Celtis having inconspicuous flowers and small berrylike fruits". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hackberry?

hackberry has 3 syllables: hack-ber-ry. The stress falls on "hack". In IPA it is /ˈhækˌbɛɹi/.

What is another word for hackberry?

Close synonyms include nettle tree, sugarberry. 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 hackberry a common word?

hackberry 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 hackberry?

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