maffia

Other forms of maffia

plural

maffias·

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 maffia

What does maffia mean?

maffia means "a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in maffia?

maffia has 3 syllables: maf-fi-a. The stress falls on "maf". In IPA it is /ˈmæfiə/.

What is another word for maffia?

Close synonyms include Mafia, Cosa Nostra, Mafia, Sicilian Mafia, mafia. 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 maffia a common word?

maffia 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.