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spam musubi

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English

Syllables
spam -musubi
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A food, common in Hawaii, made of cooked spam tied to a block of rice with nori, differing from sushi in that the rice is not vinegared.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From spam + musubi, from Japanese 結び (musubi, “rice ball”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

spam musubis (plural)

Questions

What does spam musubi mean?
A food, common in Hawaii, made of cooked spam tied to a block of rice with nori, differing from sushi in that the rice is not vinegared.
Where does spam musubi come from?
It is traced to Japanese.

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