banana

Other forms of banana

plural

bananas·

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 banana

What does banana mean?

banana means "any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in banana?

banana has 3 syllables: ba-nan-a. The stress falls on "nan". In IPA it is /bəˈnænə/.

What is another word for banana?

Close synonyms include banana tree. 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 banana a common word?

banana is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 banana?

1 word rhymes with banana. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.