tarawa

Other forms of tarawa

plural

tarawas·

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 tarawa

What does tarawa mean?

tarawa means "national capital of Kiribati". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tarawa?

tarawa has 3 syllables: ta-ra-wa. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for tarawa?

Close synonyms include Bairiki, Makin, Tarawa-Makin. 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 tarawa a common word?

tarawa 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.