papaw

Other forms of papaw

plural

papaws·

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 papaw

What does papaw mean?

papaw means "small tree native to the eastern United States having oblong leaves and fleshy fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in papaw?

papaw has 2 syllables: pa-paw. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˈpɔpɔ/.

What is another word for papaw?

Close synonyms include pawpaw, papaw tree, Asimina triloba, pawpaw. 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 papaw a common word?

papaw 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.