farrago

Other forms of farrago

plural

farragoes

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 farrago

What does farrago mean?

farrago means "a motley assortment of things".

How many syllables are in farrago?

farrago has 3 syllables and divides as far-ra-go 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 farrago?

Close synonyms include odds and ends, oddments, melange, ragbag, mishmash. 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 farrago a common word?

farrago 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.