Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tostone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: to-stone
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Mexican dish of fried, sliced unripe plantain.

Etymology

From Spanish tostón, probably as a back-formation from the plural, tostones. Tostón is from tostar (“to toast”).

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: tostón

Inflected Forms

tostones (plural)

Questions

What does tostone mean?: A Mexican dish of fried, sliced unripe plantain.
Where does tostone come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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