milkwort

Other forms of milkwort

plural

milkworts·

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 milkwort

What does milkwort mean?

milkwort means "any of various plants of the genus Polygala".

How many syllables are in milkwort?

milkwort has 2 syllables: mil-kwort. The stress falls on "mil".

Is milkwort a common word?

milkwort 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.