beluga

Other forms of beluga

plural

belugas·

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 beluga

What does beluga mean?

beluga means "valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beluga?

beluga has 3 syllables: be-lu-ga. The stress falls on "lu". In IPA it is /bɪˈluɡə/.

What is another word for beluga?

Close synonyms include hausen, white sturgeon, Acipenser huso, white whale, Delphinapterus leucas. 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 beluga a common word?

beluga 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.