mistletoe

Other forms of mistletoe

plural

mistletoes·

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 mistletoe

What does mistletoe mean?

mistletoe means "American plants closely resembling Old World mistletoe". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mistletoe?

mistletoe has 3 syllables: mist-le-toe. The stress falls on "mist". In IPA it is /ˈmɪsəlˌtoʊ/.

What is another word for mistletoe?

Close synonyms include false mistletoe, Viscum album, Old World mistletoe, Loranthus europaeus. 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 mistletoe a common word?

mistletoe 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 mistletoe?

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