mignonette

Questions about mignonette

What does mignonette mean?

mignonette means "Mediterranean woody annual widely cultivated for its dense terminal spikelike clusters greenish or yellowish white flowers having an intense spicy fragrance".

How many syllables are in mignonette?

mignonette has 3 syllables and divides as mig-no-nette 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 mignonette?

Close synonyms include sweet reseda, Reseda odorata. 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 mignonette a common word?

mignonette 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.