costanoan

What does costanoan mean?

costanoan means "a member of a North American Indian people living in coastal California between Monterey and San Francisco Bay". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in costanoan?

costanoan has 4 syllables and divides as co-sta-no-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.

Is costanoan a common word?

costanoan 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for costanoan come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.