shamrock

Other forms of shamrock

plural

shamrocks·

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 shamrock

What does shamrock mean?

shamrock means "creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shamrock?

shamrock has 2 syllables: sham-rock. The stress falls on "sham". In IPA it is /ˈʃæmˌɹɑk/.

What is another word for shamrock?

Close synonyms include white clover, dutch clover, Trifolium repens, common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread. 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 shamrock a common word?

shamrock 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.

What rhymes with shamrock?

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