silverweed

Other forms of silverweed

plural

silverweeds·

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 silverweed

What does silverweed mean?

silverweed means "any of various twining shrubs of the genus Argyreia having silvery leaves and showy purple flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in silverweed?

silverweed has 3 syllables: sil-ver-weed. The stress falls on "sil".

What is another word for silverweed?

Close synonyms include goose-tansy, goose grass, Potentilla anserina. 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 silverweed a common word?

silverweed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.