manila

Other forms of manila

plural

manilas·

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 manila

What does manila mean?

manila means "a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in manila?

manila has 3 syllables: ma-nil-a. The stress falls on "nil". In IPA it is /məˈnɪlə/.

What is another word for manila?

Close synonyms include manila paper, manilla, manilla paper, capital of the Philippines. 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 manila a common word?

manila 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.

What rhymes with manila?

3 words rhyme with manila. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.