neophyte

Other forms of neophyte

plural

neophytes·

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 neophyte

What does neophyte mean?

neophyte means "a plant that is found in an area where it had not been recorded previously". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in neophyte?

neophyte has 3 syllables: ne-o-phyte. The stress falls on "ne". In IPA it is /ˈniəˌfaɪt/.

What is another word for neophyte?

Close synonyms include newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, freshman. 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 neophyte a common word?

neophyte 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 neophyte?

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