pinyon

Other forms of pinyon

plural

pinyons·

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 pinyon

What does pinyon mean?

pinyon means "any of several low-growing pines of western North America".

How many syllables are in pinyon?

pinyon has 2 syllables: pi-nyon. The stress falls on "pi".

What is another word for pinyon?

Close synonyms include pinon. 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 pinyon a common word?

pinyon 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.