tarragon

Other forms of tarragon

plural

tarragons·

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 tarragon

What does tarragon mean?

tarragon means "aromatic perennial of southeastern Russia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tarragon?

tarragon has 3 syllables: tar-ra-gon. The stress falls on "tar".

What is another word for tarragon?

Close synonyms include estragon, Artemisia dracunculus, estragon. 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 tarragon a common word?

tarragon 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.