sugarcane

Other forms of sugarcane

plural

sugarcanes·

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 sugarcane

What does sugarcane mean?

sugarcane means "juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar; fresh canes are sometimes chewed for the juice". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sugarcane?

sugarcane has 3 syllables: sug-ar-cane. The stress falls on "sug". In IPA it is /ˈʃʊɡɚˌkeɪn/.

What is another word for sugarcane?

Close synonyms include sugar cane, sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum. 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 sugarcane a common word?

sugarcane 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.

What rhymes with sugarcane?

6 words rhyme with sugarcane. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.