stinkhorn

Other forms of stinkhorn

plural

stinkhorns·

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 stinkhorn

What does stinkhorn mean?

stinkhorn means "any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales".

How many syllables are in stinkhorn?

stinkhorn has 2 syllables: stink-horn. The stress falls on "stink".

What is another word for stinkhorn?

Close synonyms include carrion fungus. 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 stinkhorn a common word?

stinkhorn 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.