poppy

Other forms of poppy

plural

poppies·

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 poppy

What does poppy mean?

poppy means "annual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers".

How many syllables are in poppy?

poppy has 2 syllables: pop-py. The stress falls on "pop". In IPA it is /ˈpɑpi/.

Is poppy a common word?

poppy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.