muskmelon

Other forms of muskmelon

plural

muskmelons·

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 muskmelon

What does muskmelon mean?

muskmelon means "any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in muskmelon?

muskmelon has 3 syllables: musk-mel-on. The stress falls on "musk". In IPA it is /ˈmʌskˌmɛlən/.

What is another word for muskmelon?

Close synonyms include sweet melon, sweet melon vine, Cucumis melo, sweet melon. 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 muskmelon a common word?

muskmelon 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.

What rhymes with muskmelon?

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