tabasco

Other forms of tabasco

plural

tabascoes·

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 tabasco

What does tabasco mean?

tabasco means "a Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tabasco?

tabasco has 3 syllables: ta-bas-co. The stress falls on "bas". In IPA it is /təˈbæskoʊ/.

What is another word for tabasco?

Close synonyms include Tabasco sauce, red pepper. 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 tabasco a common word?

tabasco 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.