vanilla

1. 1.

   flavored with vanilla extract

   “he liked vanilla ice cream”
2. 2.

   plain and without any extras or adornments

   “the most common type of bond is the straight or plain vanilla bond”

   “the basic car is known as the vanilla version”

   Similarplain

Other forms of vanilla

plural

vanillas·

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 vanilla

What does vanilla mean?

vanilla means "any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vanilla?

vanilla has 3 syllables: va-nil-la. The stress falls on "nil". In IPA it is /vəˈnɪlə/.

What is another word for vanilla?

Close synonyms include vanilla extract. 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 vanilla a common word?

vanilla is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 vanilla?

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