ketembilla

Other forms of ketembilla

plural

ketembillas·

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 ketembilla

What does ketembilla mean?

ketembilla means "a small shrubby spiny tree cultivated for its maroon-purple fruit with sweet purple pulp tasting like gooseberries; Sri Lanka and India". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ketembilla?

ketembilla has 4 syllables and divides as ke-tem-bil-la 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 ketembilla?

Close synonyms include kitembilla, kitambilla, ketembilla tree, Ceylon gooseberry, Dovyalis hebecarpa. 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 ketembilla a common word?

ketembilla 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.