tupelo

Other forms of tupelo

plural

tupeloes·

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 tupelo

What does tupelo mean?

tupelo means "pale soft wood of a tupelo tree especially the water gum". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tupelo?

tupelo has 3 syllables: tu-pe-lo. The stress falls on "tu". In IPA it is /ˈtjupəˌloʊ/.

What is another word for tupelo?

Close synonyms include tupelo tree. 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 tupelo a common word?

tupelo 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.

What rhymes with tupelo?

17 words rhyme with tupelo. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.