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melado

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mela-do
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Spanish melado, from melar (“to sugar, to candy”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

melados (plural) meladoes (plural) melada (alternative)

Questions

What does melado mean?
a mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained
Where does melado come from?
It is traced to Spanish.

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