pimpernel

Other forms of pimpernel

plural

pimpernels·

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 pimpernel

What does pimpernel mean?

pimpernel means "European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pimpernel?

pimpernel has 3 syllables: pim-per-nel. The stress falls on "pim".

What is another word for pimpernel?

Close synonyms include salad burnet, burnet bloodwort, Poterium sanguisorba. 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 pimpernel a common word?

pimpernel 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.