mielie
/ˈmiː.li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""Throughout most of the country, however, South African cuisine relies on meat and mielies. Many South Africans, black and white, would cheerfully go through their lives eating little else. Up to half the arable land in South Africa is planted with maize, which was grown by tribes across Southern African long before the colonists arrived. https://web.archive.org/web/20060720101224/http://www.southafrica.info/plan_trip/holiday/food_wine/920091.htm"
Etymology
From Afrikaans mielie, from Portuguese milho.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mielie, milho