bamboo

Other forms of bamboo

plural

bamboos·

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 bamboo

What does bamboo mean?

bamboo means "the hard woody stems of bamboo plants; used in construction and crafts and fishing poles". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bamboo?

bamboo has 2 syllables: bam-boo. The stress falls on "boo". In IPA it is /bæmˈbu/.

Is bamboo a common word?

bamboo is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 bamboo?

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