peyote

Other forms of peyote

plural

peyotes·

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 peyote

What does peyote mean?

peyote means "a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in peyote?

peyote has 3 syllables: pe-y-ote. The stress falls on "y". In IPA it is /pɪˈjɔˌti/.

What is another word for peyote?

Close synonyms include mescal, mezcal, Lophophora williamsii, mescaline. 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 peyote a common word?

peyote 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 peyote?

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