litchee

Other forms of litchee

plural

litchees·

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 litchee

What does litchee mean?

litchee means "Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried".

How many syllables are in litchee?

litchee has 2 syllables: lit-chee. The stress falls on "lit".

What is another word for litchee?

Close synonyms include litchi, litchi nut, lichi, leechee, lichee. 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 litchee a common word?

litchee 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.