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miombo

noun

miombo is spelled M-I-O-M-B-O: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, miombo means “Any tree of the genus Brachystegia, native to tropical Africa” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of miombo is miombos.

How many letters and syllables are in miombo?

Letters6: M-I-O-M-B-O
In writingabout once in every 81 million words; the 286,585th 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 miombo?

Miombo appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).

Forms of miombo

  • miombos plural

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

What does miombo mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any tree of the genus Brachystegia, native to tropical Africa

  2. 2

    Woodland composed of such trees.

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

Where does miombo come from?

Borrowed from Bemba miombo, plural of muombo.

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

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