spiderwort

Questions about spiderwort

What does spiderwort mean?

spiderwort means "any plant of the family Commelinaceae".

How many syllables are in spiderwort?

spiderwort has 3 syllables and divides as spi-der-wort under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for spiderwort?

Close synonyms include dayflower. 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 spiderwort a common word?

spiderwort 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.