guava

Other forms of guava

plural

guavas·

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 guava

What does guava mean?

guava means "small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in guava?

guava has 2 syllables: gua-va. The stress falls on "gua". In IPA it is /ˈɡwɑvə/.

What is another word for guava?

Close synonyms include strawberry guava, yellow cattley guava, Psidium littorale, true guava, guava bush. 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 guava a common word?

guava is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.