calapooya

Questions about calapooya

What does calapooya mean?

calapooya means "a member of the North American Indian people of Oregon".

How many syllables are in calapooya?

calapooya has 3 syllables and divides as ca-la-pooya 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 calapooya?

Close synonyms include Kalapooia, Kalapuya, Calapuya. 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 calapooya a common word?

calapooya 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.