pecan

Other forms of pecan

plural

pecans·

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 pecan

What does pecan mean?

pecan means "wood of a pecan tree". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pecan?

pecan has 2 syllables: pe-can. The stress falls on "can". In IPA it is /pəˈkɑn/.

What is another word for pecan?

Close synonyms include pecan tree, Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis. 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 pecan a common word?

pecan 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.

What rhymes with pecan?

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