Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

muscovado

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.61 in modern English

Syllables: mus-co-v-a-do
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

Corrupted from Spanish mascabado or Portuguese mascavado, from the verb mascavar, a corrupted form of menoscabar (“to despise”).

Usage

Inflected Forms

muscovados (plural) muscovadoes (plural)

Questions

What does muscovado mean?: An unrefined brown sugar with a strong flavour of molasses.
Where does muscovado come from?: Corrupted from Spanish mascabado or Portuguese mascavado, from the verb mascavar, a corrupted form of menoscabar (“to despise”).

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