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zea

/ˈziː.ə/noun

zea is spelled Z-E-A: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 75,877th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, zea means “Any plant of the genus Zea” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of zea is zeas.

How many letters and syllables are in zea?

Letters3: Z-E-A
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 75,877th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is zea?

Zea appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 75,877th 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 zea?

  • /ˈziː.ə/

Zea has one syllable (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).

Forms of zea

  • zeas plural

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

What does zea mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any plant of the genus Zea.

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

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