orris

Other forms of orris

plural

orrises·

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 orris

What does orris mean?

orris means "German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in orris?

orris has 2 syllables: or-ris. The stress falls on "or". In IPA it is /ˈɔɹɪs/.

What is another word for orris?

Close synonyms include Florentine iris, Iris germanica florentina, Iris florentina, orrisroot. 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 orris a common word?

orris 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.