kweek

Other forms of kweek

plural

kweeks·

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 kweek

What does kweek mean?

kweek means "trailing grass native to Europe now cosmopolitan in warm regions; used for lawns and pastures especially in southern United States and India".

How many syllables are in kweek?

kweek has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for kweek?

Close synonyms include Bermuda grass, devil grass, Bahama grass, doob, scutch grass. 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 kweek a common word?

kweek 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.