walnut

Other forms of walnut

plural

walnuts·

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 walnut

What does walnut mean?

walnut means "nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two-lobed seed with a hard shell". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in walnut?

walnut has 2 syllables: wal-nut. The stress falls on "wal". In IPA it is /ˈwɔlˌnʌt/.

What is another word for walnut?

Close synonyms include walnut 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 walnut a common word?

walnut 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.

What rhymes with walnut?

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