trapa

Questions about trapa

What does trapa mean?

trapa means "small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnut".

How many syllables are in trapa?

trapa has 2 syllables and divides as tra-pa 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.

What is another word for trapa?

Close synonyms include genus Trapa. 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 trapa a common word?

trapa 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.