ragweed

Other forms of ragweed

plural

ragweeds·

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 ragweed

What does ragweed mean?

ragweed means "widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ragweed?

ragweed has 2 syllables: rag-weed. The stress falls on "rag". In IPA it is /ˈɹæˌɡwid/.

What is another word for ragweed?

Close synonyms include ragwort, tansy ragwort, benweed, Senecio jacobaea, ambrosia. 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 ragweed a common word?

ragweed 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.