dika

Other forms of dika

plural

dikas·

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 dika

What does dika mean?

dika means "African tree with edible yellow fruit resembling mangos; valued for its oil-rich seed and hardy green wood that resists termites".

How many syllables are in dika?

dika has 2 syllables and divides as di-ka 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 dika?

Close synonyms include wild mango, wild mango tree, Irvingia gabonensis. 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 dika a common word?

dika 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.