ryegrass

Other forms of ryegrass

plural

ryegrasses·

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 ryegrass

What does ryegrass mean?

ryegrass means "any of several annual or perennial Eurasian grasses".

How many syllables are in ryegrass?

ryegrass has 2 syllables: rye-grass. The stress falls on "rye".

What is another word for ryegrass?

Close synonyms include rye grass. 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 ryegrass a common word?

ryegrass 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.