Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thuja

/ˈθu.jə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English

Syllables: thu-ja
IPA: /ˈθu.jə/

15

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tree of the genus Thuja.

Example Sentences

"She walked among the thuja trees in the garden and wept: over the book, over her children, over her lost country."

Etymology

From taxonomic New Latin Thuja, from Ancient Greek θυία (thuía).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: -, θυία

Inflected Forms

thujas (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce thuja?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈθu.jə/.
What does thuja mean?: A tree of the genus Thuja.
Where does thuja come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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