caddoan

Questions about caddoan

What does caddoan mean?

caddoan means "a family of North American Indian languages spoken widely in the Midwest by the Caddo".

How many syllables are in caddoan?

caddoan has 3 syllables and divides as cad-do-an under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for caddoan?

Close synonyms include Caddo, Caddoan language. 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 caddoan a common word?

caddoan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.