sapling

1. 1.

   young tree

   Broadertree

Other forms of sapling

plural

saplings·

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 sapling

What does sapling mean?

sapling means "young tree".

How many syllables are in sapling?

sapling has 2 syllables: sap-ling. The stress falls on "sap". In IPA it is /ˈsæplɪŋ/.

Is sapling a common word?

sapling 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.