cassava

Other forms of cassava

plural

cassavas·

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 cassava

What does cassava mean?

cassava means "a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cassava?

cassava has 3 syllables and divides as cas-sa-va 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 cassava?

Close synonyms include cassava starch, manioc, manioca, manioc, casava. 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 cassava a common word?

cassava 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.