gumbo

Other forms of gumbo

plural

gumboes·

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 gumbo

What does gumbo mean?

gumbo means "any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gumbo?

gumbo has 2 syllables: gum-bo. The stress falls on "gum". In IPA it is /ˈɡʌmboʊ/.

What is another word for gumbo?

Close synonyms include gumbo soil, okra, okra plant, lady's-finger, Abelmoschus esculentus. 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 gumbo a common word?

gumbo is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.