maguey

Other forms of maguey

plural

magueys·

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 maguey

What does maguey mean?

maguey means "Mexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in maguey?

maguey has 2 syllables: ma-guey. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for maguey?

Close synonyms include Agave atrovirens, cantala, Agave cantala. 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 maguey a common word?

maguey 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.