spiceberry

Other forms of spiceberry

plural

spiceberries·

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 spiceberry

What does spiceberry mean?

spiceberry means "shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spiceberry?

spiceberry has 4 syllables: spi-ce-ber-ry. The stress falls on "ce".

What is another word for spiceberry?

Close synonyms include coralberry, Ardisia crenata, wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry. 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 spiceberry a common word?

spiceberry 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.