magma

1. 1.

   molten rock in the earth's crust

   Broaderrock

Other forms of magma

plural

magmata

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 magma

What does magma mean?

magma means "molten rock in the earth's crust".

How many syllables are in magma?

magma has 2 syllables: mag-ma. The stress falls on "mag". In IPA it is /ˈmæɡmə/.

Is magma a common word?

magma 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.