Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

water chestnut

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English

Syllables: wa-ter ch-est-nut
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis), grown for its edible corm, used in Asian cooking.

Uncountable

noun

A corm of a plant of this species.

Countable

noun

A water caltrop (Trapa natans).

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

water chestnuts (plural) waterchestnut (alternative)

Synonyms

chinese water chestnut eleocharis dulcis water chestnut plant caltrop

Questions

What does water chestnut mean?: Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis), grown for its edible corm, used in Asian cooking.

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