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lychnis

/ˈlɪknɪs/noun

lychnis is a noun meaning “Any of the genus Lychnis of flowering plants” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-Y-C-H-N-I-S, and it appears about once in every 78 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lychnis is lychnises.

What does lychnis mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any of the genus Lychnis of flowering plants.

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

How do you pronounce lychnis?

  • /ˈlɪknɪs/

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

Forms of lychnis

  • lychnises plural

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

How common is lychnis?

Lychnis appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th 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).

Where does lychnis come from?

From the genus name.

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