teasel

Other forms of teasel

plural

teasels·

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 teasel

What does teasel mean?

teasel means "any of several herbs of the genus Dipsacus native to the Old World having flower heads surrounded by spiny bracts".

How many syllables are in teasel?

teasel has 3 syllables: te-a-sel. The stress falls on "te".

What is another word for teasel?

Close synonyms include teazel, teasle. 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 teasel a common word?

teasel 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.