ironwood

Other forms of ironwood

plural

ironwoods·

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 ironwood

What does ironwood mean?

ironwood means "handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ironwood?

ironwood has 3 syllables: i-ron-wood. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˈaɪɚnˌwʊd/.

What is another word for ironwood?

Close synonyms include rose chestnut, ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea, iron tree, iron-tree. 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 ironwood a common word?

ironwood 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 ironwood?

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