ranula

1. 1.

   a cyst on the underside of the tongue

   Broadercyst

Other forms of ranula

plural

ranulae

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 ranula

What does ranula mean?

ranula means "a cyst on the underside of the tongue".

How many syllables are in ranula?

ranula has 3 syllables: ra-nu-la. The stress falls on "ra".

Is ranula a common word?

ranula is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.