soya

Other forms of soya

plural

soyas·

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 soya

What does soya mean?

soya 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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soya?

soya has 2 syllables: so-ya. The stress falls on "so". In IPA it is /ˈsɔɪə/.

What is another word for soya?

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

soya 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.