thyme

Other forms of thyme

plural

thymes·

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 thyme

What does thyme mean?

thyme means "any of various mints of the genus Thymus". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thyme?

thyme has 1 syllable: thyme. In IPA it is /ˈθaɪm/.

Is thyme a common word?

thyme 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.