malanga

Other forms of malanga

plural

malangas·

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 malanga

What does malanga mean?

malanga means "tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes".

How many syllables are in malanga?

malanga has 3 syllables: ma-lan-ga. The stress falls on "lan". In IPA it is /mɑˈlɑŋɡə/.

What is another word for malanga?

Close synonyms include yautia, tannia, spoonflower, Xanthosoma sagittifolium, Xanthosoma atrovirens. 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 malanga a common word?

malanga 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.

What rhymes with malanga?

1 word rhymes with malanga. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.