loosestrife

Other forms of loosestrife

plural

loosestrives·

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 loosestrife

What does loosestrife mean?

loosestrife means "any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in loosestrife?

loosestrife has 2 syllables: loose-strife. The stress falls on "loose". In IPA it is /ˈlusˌstɹaɪf/.

Is loosestrife a common word?

loosestrife 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.

What rhymes with loosestrife?

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