Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bananas

/bəˈnæ.nəz/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.70 in modern English

Syllables: ba-nanas
IPA: /bəˈnæ.nəz/

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

plural of banana

adj

Crazy, mad, nuts.

noun

plural of BANANA

Example Sentences

"I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas."
"The ensuing snarknado also seemed to goose the TV ratings. Hundreds of thousands of viewers switched on the movie after it began, suggesting that they’d gotten wind through Twitter of the bananas spectacle that was unfolding."
"“September was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist, absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” said Zeke Hausfather, at the Berkeley Earth climate data project."

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /bəˈnæ.nəz/
British English: /bəˈnɑː.nəz/

Inflected Forms

more bananas (comparative) most bananas (superlative)

Derived Forms

banoodles

Phrases

go bananas

Frequently Paired Words

bananapants

Synonyms

5150 bananas barking barking mad buggish buggy bughouse barmy batchy batpoop bats batty

Rhymes With

annas bandanas savannas cabanas panas hannahs planas

Questions

How do you pronounce bananas?: The recorded pronunciation is /bəˈnæ.nəz/.
What does bananas mean?: plural of banana

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