orchard

Other forms of orchard

plural

orchards·

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 orchard

What does orchard mean?

orchard means "garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth".

How many syllables are in orchard?

orchard has 2 syllables: or-chard. The stress falls on "or". In IPA it is /ˈɔɹtʃɚd/.

What is another word for orchard?

Close synonyms include grove, woodlet, plantation. 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 orchard a common word?

orchard 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.