tunga

Questions about tunga

What does tunga mean?

tunga means "a genus of Siphonaptera".

How many syllables are in tunga?

tunga has 2 syllables and divides as tun-ga 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 tunga?

Close synonyms include genus Tunga. 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 tunga a common word?

tunga 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.