bonito

Other forms of bonito

plural

bonitoes

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 bonito

What does bonito mean?

bonito means "flesh of mostly Pacific food fishes of the genus Sarda of the family Scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bonito?

bonito has 3 syllables: bo-ni-to. The stress falls on "ni". In IPA it is /bəˈnitoʊ/.

What is another word for bonito?

Close synonyms include oceanic bonito, Katsuwonus pelamis. 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 bonito a common word?

bonito 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.

What rhymes with bonito?

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