rioja

1. 1.

   dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain

   Broaderred wine

Other forms of rioja

plural

riojas·

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 rioja

What does rioja mean?

rioja means "dry red table wine from the Rioja region of northern Spain".

How many syllables are in rioja?

rioja has 3 syllables: ri-o-ja. The stress falls on "ri".

Is rioja a common word?

rioja 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.