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say it: an-uh-SAZ-ee
anasazi is a noun meaning "a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings". It is pronounced /ˌænəˈsæzi/ — an-uh-SAZ-ee. It carries one recorded sense.
a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for anasazi come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.