rhubarb

Other forms of rhubarb

plural

rhubarbs·

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 rhubarb

What does rhubarb mean?

rhubarb means "long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rhubarb?

rhubarb has 2 syllables: rhu-barb. The stress falls on "rhu". In IPA it is /ˈɹuˌbɑɹb/.

What is another word for rhubarb?

Close synonyms include pieplant, rhubarb plant. 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 rhubarb a common word?

rhubarb is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 rhubarb?

1 word rhymes with rhubarb. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.