pignut

Questions about pignut

What does pignut mean?

pignut means "an American hickory tree having bitter nuts".

How many syllables are in pignut?

pignut has 2 syllables and divides as pig-nut under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for pignut?

Close synonyms include pignut hickory, brown hickory, black hickory, Carya glabra. 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 pignut a common word?

pignut is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.