lungen

Other forms of lungen

plural

lungens·

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 lungen

What does lungen mean?

lungen means "tree of southeastern Asia to Australia grown primarily for its sweet edible fruit resembling litchi nuts; sometimes placed in genera Euphorbia or Nephelium".

How many syllables are in lungen?

lungen has 2 syllables and divides as lun-gen 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 lungen?

Close synonyms include longan, longanberry, Dimocarpus longan, Euphorbia litchi, Nephelium longana. 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 lungen a common word?

lungen 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.