stevia

Questions about stevia

What does stevia mean?

stevia means "any plant of the genus Stevia or the closely related genus Piqueria having glutinous foliage and white or purplish flowers; Central and South America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stevia?

stevia has 3 syllables and divides as ste-vi-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is stevia a common word?

stevia 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.