ropebark

Other forms of ropebark

plural

ropebarks·

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 ropebark

What does ropebark mean?

ropebark means "deciduous shrub of eastern North America having tough flexible branches and pliable bark and small yellow flowers".

How many syllables are in ropebark?

ropebark has 3 syllables: ro-pe-bark. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for ropebark?

Close synonyms include leatherwood, moosewood, moose-wood, wicopy, Dirca palustris. 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 ropebark a common word?

ropebark 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.