cocoyam

Other forms of cocoyam

plural

cocoyams·

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 cocoyam

What does cocoyam mean?

cocoyam means "edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cocoyam?

cocoyam has 2 syllables: co-coyam. The stress falls on "co".

What is another word for cocoyam?

Close synonyms include taro, dasheen, eddo, taro, taro root. 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 cocoyam a common word?

cocoyam is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.