pansy

Other forms of pansy

plural

pansies·

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 pansy

What does pansy mean?

pansy means "large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pansy?

pansy has 2 syllables: pan-sy. The stress falls on "pan". In IPA it is /ˈpænzi/.

What is another word for pansy?

Close synonyms include Viola tricolor hortensis, sissy, pantywaist, milksop, Milquetoast. 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 pansy a common word?

pansy 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.

What rhymes with pansy?

1 word rhymes with pansy. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.