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awara

awa·raUK /əˈwɑːɹə/noun

awara is spelled A-W-A-R-A: 5 letters and 2 syllables (awa·ra). It appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, awara means “The palm tree Astrocaryum vulgare which is native to the Amazon Rainforest region” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of awara is awaras.

How many letters and syllables are in awara?

Letters5: A-W-A-R-A
Syllables2: awa·ra
In writingabout once in every 62 million words; the 246,401st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is awara?

Awara appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce awara?

  • UK /əˈwɑːɹə/
  • UK [æˈwɑːɹʌ]
  • UK [ˈɒwʌɹʌ]

Awara has 2 syllables, split awa·ra in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-awara.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with awara?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as awara from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɹə/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of awara

  • awaras plural
  • awarra

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does awara mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The palm tree Astrocaryum vulgare which is native to the Amazon Rainforest region.

  2. 2

    The oily edible fruit of this tree, which has a yellowish-orange skin and pulp, and a large black seed. Both the pulp and the seed yield oil.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Awara in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Astrocaryum vulgare:

LanguageWords
Portuguesetucum, tucumã-do-Pará
Spanishchontilla

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does awara come from?

Borrowed from Guyanese Creole English awara, from Lokono awara.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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