bananas
/bəˈnæ.nəz/adjective, noun
bananas is spelled B-A-N-A-N-A-S. The wrong spelling people search most is banannas: about 460 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 128 of all searches for the word. Bananas is an adjective meaning “Crazy, mad, nuts”.
How many letters and syllables are in bananas?
| Letters | 7: B-A-N-A-N-A-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, banannas, about 460 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell bananas?
Bananas is spelled B-A-N-A-N-A-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 129 of the searches for bananas in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is bananas?
Bananas appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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 bananas?
- UK /bəˈnɑː.nəz/
- US /bəˈnæ.nəz/
Bananas has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-bananas.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bananas
- more bananas comparative
- most bananas superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bananas mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Crazy, mad, nuts.
noun
- 1
plural of banana
noun
- 1
plural of BANANA
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).