trellis

1. 1.

   latticework used to support climbing plants

   Synonymstreillage

   Broaderlattice

   Narrowerespalier

1. 1.

   train on a trellis, as of a vine

   Broadertrain

Other forms of trellis

plural

trellises·

past tense

trellised·

present participle

trellising·

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 trellis

What does trellis mean?

trellis means "latticework used to support climbing plants". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trellis?

trellis has 2 syllables: trel-lis. The stress falls on "trel". In IPA it is /ˈtɹɛləs/.

What is another word for trellis?

Close synonyms include treillage. 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 trellis a common word?

trellis 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.