mandrake

Other forms of mandrake

plural

mandrakes·

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 mandrake

What does mandrake mean?

mandrake means "the root of the mandrake plant; used medicinally or as a narcotic". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mandrake?

mandrake has 2 syllables: man-drake. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˈmænˌdɹeɪk/.

What is another word for mandrake?

Close synonyms include mandrake root, devil's apples, Mandragora officinarum. 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 mandrake a common word?

mandrake 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 mandrake?

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