Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

moya

/mˈɔɪə/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.74 in modern English

Syllables: moya
IPA: /mˈɔɪə/

9

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

name

A surname from Spanish.

Example Sentences

"These are the principal tufas indicative of the boiling tufaceous mud, or moya, which once filled, even to an overflow, the valley of Rieden."

Etymology

Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.

Usage

Inflected Forms

moyas (plural)

Synonyms

mud lava volcanic mud tufaceous mud

Rhymes With

paranoia nagoya montoya sequoia soya goya toya loya latoya bedoya sequoyah tafoya

Questions

How do you pronounce moya?: The recorded pronunciation is /mˈɔɪə/.
What does moya mean?: Flowing mud associated with a volcanic eruption (especially in South America), formed when snow or a lake near a volcano is disrupted, or when rain or steam mixes with soil or ash during an eruption.
Where does moya come from?: Said by Century to have originally been applied to mud formed by Pichincha near Quito and to derive from a South American language.

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