speedwell

Other forms of speedwell

plural

speedwells·

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 speedwell

What does speedwell mean?

speedwell means "any plant of the genus Veronica".

How many syllables are in speedwell?

speedwell has 2 syllables: spee-dwell. The stress falls on "spee".

What is another word for speedwell?

Close synonyms include veronica. 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 speedwell a common word?

speedwell 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.