rosewood

Other forms of rosewood

plural

rosewoods·

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 rosewood

What does rosewood mean?

rosewood means "hard dark reddish wood of a rosewood tree having a strongly marked grain; used in cabinetwork". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rosewood?

rosewood has 2 syllables: rose-wood. The stress falls on "rose". In IPA it is /ˈɹoʊzˌwʊd/.

What is another word for rosewood?

Close synonyms include rosewood tree. 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 rosewood a common word?

rosewood 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 rosewood?

19 words rhyme with rosewood. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.