anime

Other forms of anime

plural

animes·

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 anime

What does anime mean?

anime means "a hard copal derived from an African tree". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anime?

anime has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˌænɪˈmeɪ/.

What is another word for anime?

Close synonyms include Zanzibar copal, gum anime. 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 anime a common word?

anime is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with anime?

5 words rhyme with anime. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.