anguilla

Other forms of anguilla

plural

anguillas·

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 anguilla

What does anguilla mean?

anguilla means "a British colony in the West Indies". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anguilla?

anguilla has 3 syllables: an-guil-la. The stress falls on "guil". In IPA it is /ˌæŋˈwɪlə/.

What is another word for anguilla?

Close synonyms include genus Anguilla. 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 anguilla a common word?

anguilla 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.