tuna

Other forms of tuna

plural

tuna(unchanged)

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 tuna

What does tuna mean?

tuna means "tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tuna?

tuna has 2 syllables: tu-na. The stress falls on "tu". In IPA it is /ˈtunə/.

What is another word for tuna?

Close synonyms include Opuntia tuna, tuna fish, tunny, tunny, Anguilla sucklandii. 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 tuna a common word?

tuna is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with tuna?

2 words rhyme with tuna. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.