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munia

noun

munia is spelled M-U-N-I-A: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, munia means “Any of certain estrildid finches of the genera Lonchura (most instances) and Amandava (two species)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of munia is munias.

How many letters and syllables are in munia?

Letters5: M-U-N-I-A
In writingabout once in every 72 million words; the 269,040th 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 munia?

Munia appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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 munia

  • munias plural
  • minia

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

What does munia mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any of certain estrildid finches of the genera Lonchura (most instances) and Amandava (two species).

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

Where does munia come from?

Borrowed from Hindi मुनिया (muniyā).

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

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