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say it: CHOOK-chee
chukchi is a noun meaning "a member of an indigenous people living on the Chukchi Peninsula". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a member of an indigenous people living on the Chukchi Peninsula
an indigenous and isolated language of unknown origin spoken by the Chukchi that is pronounced differently by men and women
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 chukchi 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.