hazelnut

Other forms of hazelnut

plural

hazelnuts·

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 hazelnut

What does hazelnut mean?

hazelnut means "any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hazelnut?

hazelnut has 3 syllables: ha-zel-nut. The stress falls on "ha". In IPA it is /ˈheɪzəlˌnʌt/.

What is another word for hazelnut?

Close synonyms include hazel, hazelnut tree, filbert, cobnut, cob. 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 hazelnut a common word?

hazelnut 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 hazelnut?

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