hawthorn

Other forms of hawthorn

plural

hawthorns·

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 hawthorn

What does hawthorn mean?

hawthorn means "a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus".

How many syllables are in hawthorn?

hawthorn has 2 syllables: haw-thorn. The stress falls on "haw". In IPA it is /ˈhɔˌθɔɹn/.

What is another word for hawthorn?

Close synonyms include haw. 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 hawthorn a common word?

hawthorn 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 hawthorn?

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