magnolia

Other forms of magnolia

plural

magnolias·

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 magnolia

What does magnolia mean?

magnolia means "dried bark of various magnolias; used in folk medicine". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in magnolia?

magnolia has 3 syllables: mag-no-lia. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /mæɡˈnoʊljə/.

Is magnolia a common word?

magnolia 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.