mola

Other forms of mola

plural

molas·

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 mola

What does mola mean?

mola means "among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters".

How many syllables are in mola?

mola has 2 syllables: mo-la. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /ˈmoʊlə/.

What is another word for mola?

Close synonyms include ocean sunfish, sunfish, headfish. 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 mola a common word?

mola 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.