marguerite

Other forms of marguerite

plural

marguerites·

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 marguerite

What does marguerite mean?

marguerite means "tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in marguerite?

marguerite has 3 syllables: mar-gue-rite. The stress falls on "rite". In IPA it is /ˌmɑɹɡɚˈit/.

What is another word for marguerite?

Close synonyms include oxeye daisy, ox-eyed daisy, moon daisy, white daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare. 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 marguerite a common word?

marguerite is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 marguerite?

2 words rhyme with marguerite. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.