potpourri

Other forms of potpourri

plural

potpourris·

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 potpourri

What does potpourri mean?

potpourri means "a collection containing a variety of sorts of things". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in potpourri?

potpourri has 3 syllables: pot-pour-ri. The stress falls on "ri". In IPA it is /ˌpoʊpʊˈɹi/.

What is another word for potpourri?

Close synonyms include assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea. 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 potpourri a common word?

potpourri 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.

What rhymes with potpourri?

9 words rhyme with potpourri. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.