unai

Other forms of unai

plural

unais·

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 unai

What does unai mean?

unai means "a sloth of Central America that has two long claws on each forefoot and three long claws on each hindfoot". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unai?

unai has 2 syllables: u-nai. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for unai?

Close synonyms include two-toed sloth, unau, Choloepus hoffmanni, two-toed sloth, unau. 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 unai a common word?

unai 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.