frangipani

Questions about frangipani

What does frangipani mean?

frangipani means "any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers".

How many syllables are in frangipani?

frangipani has 4 syllables and divides as fran-gi-pa-ni 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 frangipani?

Close synonyms include frangipanni. 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 frangipani a common word?

frangipani 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.