pigweed

Other forms of pigweed

plural

pigweeds·

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 pigweed

What does pigweed mean?

pigweed means "common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pigweed?

pigweed has 2 syllables and divides as pi-gweed 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 pigweed?

Close synonyms include lamb's-quarters, wild spinach, Chenopodium album, Amaranthus hypochondriacus, lamb's-quarter. 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 pigweed a common word?

pigweed 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.