abaca

Other forms of abaca

plural

abacas·

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 abaca

What does abaca mean?

abaca means "a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in abaca?

abaca has 3 syllables: a-ba-ca. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for abaca?

Close synonyms include Manila hemp, Manilla hemp, Manila hemp, Musa textilis. 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 abaca a common word?

abaca is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.