saltwort

Other forms of saltwort

plural

saltworts·

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 saltwort

What does saltwort mean?

saltwort means "bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saltwort?

saltwort has 2 syllables: sal-twort. The stress falls on "sal".

What is another word for saltwort?

Close synonyms include barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali. 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 saltwort a common word?

saltwort 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.