sicklepod

Other forms of sicklepod

plural

sicklepods·

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 sicklepod

What does sicklepod mean?

sicklepod means "cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sicklepod?

sicklepod has 3 syllables: sic-kle-pod. The stress falls on "sic".

What is another word for sicklepod?

Close synonyms include Senna obtusifolia, Cassia tora, Arabis Canadensis. 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 sicklepod a common word?

sicklepod 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.