weedkiller

Other forms of weedkiller

plural

weedkillers·

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 weedkiller

What does weedkiller mean?

weedkiller means "a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits their growth".

How many syllables are in weedkiller?

weedkiller has 3 syllables: weed-kil-ler. The stress falls on "weed".

What is another word for weedkiller?

Close synonyms include herbicide, weed killer. 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 weedkiller a common word?

weedkiller is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.