lichen

Other forms of lichen

plural

lichens·

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 lichen

What does lichen mean?

lichen means "any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lichen?

lichen has 2 syllables: li-chen. The stress falls on "li". In IPA it is /ˈlaɪkən/.

Is lichen a common word?

lichen 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.

What rhymes with lichen?

1 word rhymes with lichen. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.