papaya

Other forms of papaya

plural

papayas·

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 papaya

What does papaya mean?

papaya means "tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in papaya?

papaya has 3 syllables: pa-pa-ya. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /pəˈpaɪə/.

What is another word for papaya?

Close synonyms include papaia, pawpaw, papaya tree, melon tree, Carica papaya. 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 papaya a common word?

papaya 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 papaya?

1 word rhymes with papaya. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.