Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ironweed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English

Syllables: iron-weed
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of certain species of the genus Vernonia of forbs and shrubs.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From iron + weed.

Usage

Inflected Forms

ironweeds (plural)

Phrases

little ironweed New York ironweed yellow ironweed

Synonyms

vernonia

Questions

What does ironweed mean?: Any of certain species of the genus Vernonia of forbs and shrubs.
Where does ironweed come from?: From iron + weed.

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