mango

Other forms of mango

plural

mangoes

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 mango

What does mango mean?

mango means "large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mango?

mango has 2 syllables: man-go. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˈmæŋɡoʊ/.

What is another word for mango?

Close synonyms include mango tree, Mangifera indica. 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 mango a common word?

mango 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.