lepiota

Other forms of lepiota

plural

lepiotas·

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 lepiota

What does lepiota mean?

lepiota means "any fungus of the genus Lepiota".

How many syllables are in lepiota?

lepiota has 4 syllables: le-pi-o-ta. The stress falls on "pi".

Is lepiota a common word?

lepiota 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.