athapaskan

Other forms of athapaskan

plural

athapaskans·

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 athapaskan

What does athapaskan mean?

athapaskan means "a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in athapaskan?

athapaskan has 4 syllables: a-tha-pa-skan. The stress falls on "tha".

What is another word for athapaskan?

Close synonyms include Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan, Athapascan, Athabaskan. 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 athapaskan a common word?

athapaskan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.