wintergreen

Other forms of wintergreen

plural

wintergreens·

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 wintergreen

What does wintergreen mean?

wintergreen means "any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wintergreen?

wintergreen has 3 syllables: win-ter-green. The stress falls on "win". In IPA it is /ˈwɪntɚˌɡɹin/.

What is another word for wintergreen?

Close synonyms include pyrola, teaberry, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry. 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 wintergreen a common word?

wintergreen 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 wintergreen?

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