abnaki

Other forms of abnaki

plural

abnakis·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about abnaki

What does abnaki mean?

abnaki means "a member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in abnaki?

abnaki has 3 syllables: ab-na-ki. The stress falls on "ab".

What is another word for abnaki?

Close synonyms include Abenaki. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abnaki a common word?

abnaki is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.