pistil

Other forms of pistil

plural

pistils·

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 pistil

What does pistil mean?

pistil means "the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma".

How many syllables are in pistil?

pistil has 2 syllables: pis-til. The stress falls on "pis". In IPA it is /ˈpɪstəl/.

Is pistil a common word?

pistil 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.

What rhymes with pistil?

1 word rhymes with pistil. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.