peppermint

Other forms of peppermint

plural

peppermints·

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 peppermint

What does peppermint mean?

peppermint means "herb with downy leaves and small purple or white flowers that yields a pungent oil used as a flavoring". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in peppermint?

peppermint has 3 syllables: pep-per-mint. The stress falls on "pep". In IPA it is /ˈpɛpɚˌmɪnt/.

What is another word for peppermint?

Close synonyms include Mentha piperita, red gum, peppermint gum, Eucalyptus amygdalina, peppermint candy. 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 peppermint a common word?

peppermint 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 peppermint?

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