rattan

Other forms of rattan

plural

rattans·

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 rattan

What does rattan mean?

rattan means "climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rattan?

rattan has 2 syllables: rat-tan. The stress falls on "tan". In IPA it is /ɹæˈtæn/.

What is another word for rattan?

Close synonyms include rattan palm, Calamus rotang, rattan cane, ratan. 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 rattan a common word?

rattan 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.

What rhymes with rattan?

6 words rhyme with rattan. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.