rockcress

Other forms of rockcress

plural

rockcresses·

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 rockcress

What does rockcress mean?

rockcress means "noxious cress with yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sisymbrium". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rockcress?

rockcress has 2 syllables: rock-cress. The stress falls on "rock".

What is another word for rockcress?

Close synonyms include yellow rocket, rocket cress, Barbarea vulgaris, Sisymbrium barbarea, rock cress. 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 rockcress a common word?

rockcress 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.