rhenish

Other forms of rhenish

plural

rhenishes·

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 rhenish

What does rhenish mean?

rhenish means "any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rhenish?

rhenish has 2 syllables: rhe-nish. The stress falls on "rhe".

What is another word for rhenish?

Close synonyms include Rhine wine, hock. 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 rhenish a common word?

rhenish 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.