sugarplum

1. 1.

   any of various small sugary candies

   Broadercandy

Other forms of sugarplum

plural

sugarplums·

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 sugarplum

What does sugarplum mean?

sugarplum means "any of various small sugary candies".

How many syllables are in sugarplum?

sugarplum has 3 syllables and divides as su-gar-plum 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.