cashew

Other forms of cashew

plural

cashews·

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 cashew

What does cashew mean?

cashew means "tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cashew?

cashew has 2 syllables: cas-hew. The stress falls on "cas". In IPA it is /ˈkæˌʃu/.

What is another word for cashew?

Close synonyms include cashew tree, Anacardium occidentale, cashew nut. 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 cashew a common word?

cashew 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 cashew?

7 words rhyme with cashew. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.