caranda

Other forms of caranda

plural

carandas·

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 caranda

What does caranda mean?

caranda means "South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax".

How many syllables are in caranda?

caranda has 3 syllables and divides as ca-ran-da under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for caranda?

Close synonyms include caranday, caranda palm, wax palm, Copernicia australis, Copernicia alba. 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 caranda a common word?

caranda 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.