lentil

Other forms of lentil

plural

lentils·

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 lentil

What does lentil mean?

lentil means "round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lentil?

lentil has 2 syllables: len-til. The stress falls on "len". In IPA it is /ˈlɛntəl/.

What is another word for lentil?

Close synonyms include lentil plant, Lens culinaris. 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 lentil a common word?

lentil 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.