pachouli

Other forms of pachouli

plural

pachoulis·

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 pachouli

What does pachouli mean?

pachouli means "small East Indian shrubby mint; fragrant oil from its leaves is used in perfumes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pachouli?

pachouli has 3 syllables: pa-chou-li. The stress falls on "pa".

What is another word for pachouli?

Close synonyms include patchouli, patchouly, Pogostemon cablin, patchouli, patchouly. 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 pachouli a common word?

pachouli is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.