frijole

Other forms of frijole

plural

frijoles·

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 frijole

What does frijole mean?

frijole means "the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in frijole?

frijole has 3 syllables: fri-jo-le. The stress falls on "fri".

What is another word for frijole?

Close synonyms include kidney bean, frijol. 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 frijole a common word?

frijole 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.