matzah

Questions about matzah

What does matzah mean?

matzah means "brittle flat bread eaten at Passover".

How many syllables are in matzah?

matzah has 2 syllables and divides as mat-zah under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for matzah?

Close synonyms include matzo, matzoh, unleavened bread. 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 matzah a common word?

matzah 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.