tapioca

1. 1.

   granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings

   Broaderfoodstuff

Other forms of tapioca

plural

tapiocas·

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 tapioca

What does tapioca mean?

tapioca means "granular preparation of cassava starch used to thicken especially puddings".

How many syllables are in tapioca?

tapioca has 4 syllables and divides as ta-pi-o-ca 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.