rambutan

Other forms of rambutan

plural

rambutans·

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 rambutan

What does rambutan mean?

rambutan means "Malayan tree bearing spiny red fruit". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rambutan?

rambutan has 3 syllables: ram-bu-tan. The stress falls on "ram".

What is another word for rambutan?

Close synonyms include rambotan, rambutan tree, Nephelium lappaceum, rambotan. 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 rambutan a common word?

rambutan 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.