mesquite

Other forms of mesquite

plural

mesquites·

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 mesquite

What does mesquite mean?

mesquite 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 mesquite?

mesquite has 2 syllables: mes-quite. The stress falls on "mes". In IPA it is /ˈmɛˌskit/.

What is another word for mesquite?

Close synonyms include mesquit. 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 mesquite a common word?

mesquite 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 mesquite?

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