mustard

Other forms of mustard

plural

mustards·

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 mustard

What does mustard mean?

mustard means "any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mustard?

mustard has 2 syllables: mus-tard. The stress falls on "mus". In IPA it is /ˈmʌstɚd/.

What is another word for mustard?

Close synonyms include table mustard, mustard greens, leaf mustard, Indian mustard. 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 mustard a common word?

mustard is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.