pothos

Other forms of pothos

plural

pothoses·

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 pothos

What does pothos mean?

pothos means "any of various tropical lianas of the genus Scindapsus". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pothos?

pothos has 2 syllables: po-thos. The stress falls on "po".

What is another word for pothos?

Close synonyms include golden pothos, ivy arum, Epipremnum aureum, Scindapsus aureus. 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 pothos a common word?

pothos 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.