peninsula

Other forms of peninsula

plural

peninsulas·

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 peninsula

What does peninsula mean?

peninsula means "a large mass of land projecting into a body of water".

How many syllables are in peninsula?

peninsula has 4 syllables: pe-nin-su-la. The stress falls on "nin". In IPA it is /pəˈnɪnsələ/.

Is peninsula a common word?

peninsula 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.