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blumea

/ˈblu.mi.ə/noun

blumea is spelled B-L-U-M-E-A: 6 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blumea means “Any plant of the taxonomic genus Blumea, composites found chiefly in southern Asia, some used for traditional medicine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blumea is blumeas.

How many letters and syllables are in blumea?

Letters6: B-L-U-M-E-A
Syllables3 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 95 million words; the 313,259th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is blumea?

Blumea appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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 blumea?

  • US /ˈblu.mi.ə/
  • US /bluˈmeɪ.ə/

Blumea has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

Forms of blumea

  • blumeas plural

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

What does blumea mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any plant of the taxonomic genus Blumea, composites found chiefly in southern Asia, some used for traditional medicine.

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

Where does blumea come from?

Borrowed from taxonomic name Blumea, from Dutch Blume (surname, after Carl Ludwig Blume) + translingual -a f.

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

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