iguassu

Other forms of iguassu

plural

iguassus·

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 iguassu

What does iguassu mean?

iguassu means "a large waterfall on the border between Argentina and Brazil".

How many syllables are in iguassu?

iguassu has 4 syllables: i-gu-as-su. The stress falls on "gu".

What is another word for iguassu?

Close synonyms include Iguazu, Iguazu Falls, Iguassu Falls, Victoria Falls. 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 iguassu a common word?

iguassu 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.