soja

Other forms of soja

plural

sojas·

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 soja

What does soja mean?

soja means "erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to Asia".

How many syllables are in soja?

soja has 2 syllables: so-ja. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /ˈsoʊdʒə/.

What is another word for soja?

Close synonyms include soy, soya, soybean, soya bean, soybean plant. 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 soja a common word?

soja 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.