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bittercress

noun

bittercress is spelled B-I-T-T-E-R-C-R-E-S-S: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bittercress means “Barbarea vulgaris (garden yellowrocket), a biennial herb native to Europe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bittercress is bittercresses.

How many letters and syllables are in bittercress?

Letters11: B-I-T-T-E-R-C-R-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 93 million words; the 309,272nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is bittercress?

Bittercress appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce bittercress?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-bittercress.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of bittercress

  • bittercresses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does bittercress mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Barbarea vulgaris (garden yellowrocket), a biennial herb native to Europe.

  2. 2

    Any plant of the Cardamine genus, especially Cardamine bulbosa and Cardamine hirsuta.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Bittercress in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanBarbarakraut (Barbarea vulgaris), Schaumkraut (plant of Cardamine)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does bittercress come from?

From bitter + cress.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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