turnip

Other forms of turnip

plural

turnips·

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 turnip

What does turnip mean?

turnip means "widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in turnip?

turnip has 2 syllables: tur-nip. The stress falls on "tur". In IPA it is /ˈtɝnəp/.

What is another word for turnip?

Close synonyms include white turnip, Brassica rapa. 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 turnip a common word?

turnip is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.