pimenta

Questions about pimenta

What does pimenta mean?

pimenta means "allspice tree".

How many syllables are in pimenta?

pimenta has 3 syllables and divides as pi-men-ta 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 pimenta?

Close synonyms include genus Pimenta. 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 pimenta a common word?

pimenta 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.