redwood

Other forms of redwood

plural

redwoods·

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 redwood

What does redwood mean?

redwood means "the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in redwood?

redwood has 2 syllables: red-wood. The stress falls on "red". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛˌdwʊd/.

What is another word for redwood?

Close synonyms include sequoia. 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 redwood a common word?

redwood 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 redwood?

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