houseplant

Other forms of houseplant

plural

houseplants·

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 houseplant

What does houseplant mean?

houseplant means "any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes".

How many syllables are in houseplant?

houseplant has 3 syllables: hou-se-plant. The stress falls on "hou".

Is houseplant a common word?

houseplant 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.