spleenwort

Other forms of spleenwort

plural

spleenworts·

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 spleenwort

What does spleenwort mean?

spleenwort means "any of various chiefly rock-inhabiting ferns of the genus Asplenium".

How many syllables are in spleenwort?

spleenwort has 2 syllables and divides as spleen-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.

Is spleenwort a common word?

spleenwort 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.