raetam

Other forms of raetam

plural

raetams·

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 raetam

What does raetam mean?

raetam means "desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista".

How many syllables are in raetam?

raetam has 3 syllables and divides as ra-e-tam under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for raetam?

Close synonyms include retem, juniper bush, juniper, Retama raetam, Genista raetam. 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 raetam a common word?

raetam 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.