roselle

Questions about roselle

What does roselle mean?

roselle means "East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber".

How many syllables are in roselle?

roselle has 3 syllables and divides as ro-se-lle under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for roselle?

Close synonyms include rozelle, sorrel, red sorrel, Jamaica sorrel, Hibiscus sabdariffa. 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 roselle a common word?

roselle 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.