hydrangea

Other forms of hydrangea

plural

hydrangeas·

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 hydrangea

What does hydrangea mean?

hydrangea means "any of various deciduous or evergreen shrubs of the genus Hydrangea".

How many syllables are in hydrangea?

hydrangea has 4 syllables: hy-dran-ge-a. The stress falls on "dran".

Is hydrangea a common word?

hydrangea 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.