mesquit

Other forms of mesquit

plural

mesquits·

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 mesquit

What does mesquit mean?

mesquit means "any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar".

How many syllables are in mesquit?

mesquit has 2 syllables and divides as me-squit under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for mesquit?

Close synonyms include mesquite. 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 mesquit a common word?

mesquit 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.