silene

Other forms of silene

plural

silenes·

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 silene

What does silene mean?

silene means "any plant of the genus Silene".

How many syllables are in silene?

silene has 2 syllables: si-lene. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for silene?

Close synonyms include campion, catchfly. 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 silene a common word?

silene 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.