sorghum

Other forms of sorghum

plural

sorghums·

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 sorghum

What does sorghum mean?

sorghum means "economically important Old World tropical cereal grass". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sorghum?

sorghum has 2 syllables: sorg-hum. The stress falls on "sorg". In IPA it is /ˈsɔɹɡəm/.

What is another word for sorghum?

Close synonyms include genus Sorghum, sorghum molasses. 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 sorghum a common word?

sorghum 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.