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say it: weet
wheat is a noun meaning "annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains". It carries 3 recorded senses.
annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wheat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.