scallion

Other forms of scallion

plural

scallions·

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 scallion

What does scallion mean?

scallion means "plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in scallion?

scallion has 2 syllables: scal-lion. The stress falls on "scal". In IPA it is /ˈskæljən/.

What is another word for scallion?

Close synonyms include leek, Allium porrum, green onion, spring onion. 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 scallion a common word?

scallion 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.