balsa

Other forms of balsa

plural

balsas·

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 balsa

What does balsa mean?

balsa means "strong lightweight wood of the balsa tree used especially for floats". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in balsa?

balsa has 2 syllables: bal-sa. The stress falls on "bal". In IPA it is /ˈbɔlsə/.

What is another word for balsa?

Close synonyms include balsa wood, Ochroma lagopus. 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 balsa a common word?

balsa 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.