betel

Other forms of betel

plural

betels·

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 betel

What does betel mean?

betel means "a leaf of a vine from the betel pepper". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in betel?

betel has 2 syllables: bet-el. The stress falls on "bet". In IPA it is /ˈbɛtəl/.

What is another word for betel?

Close synonyms include betel leaf, betel pepper, Piper betel. 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 betel a common word?

betel 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.