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Synonyms for machete

Most common

bolo parang panga matchet hatchet

All synonyms

Noun

1. Panga — A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon

knife, panga, parang, bolo, matchet, golok, sundang

Other

hatchet

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.

    Near-synonyms: (all sometimes or regionally synonymous) bolo, golok, panga, parang, sundang

Related words

Is a kind of
knife

Forms

Plural
machetes → knives, pangas, parangs, bolos…

Example sentences

  • hatchet To make a long story short, we buried the hatchet.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
macheterising
bolorising
parangrising
pangarising
matchetfalling
hatchetrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
bolo
5 letters
knife1, panga, golok
6 letters
parang
7 letters
hatchet2, matchet, sundang

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hatchet2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
machette
Español
machete