guyot

1. 1.

   a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the Pacific Ocean)

   Broaderseamount

Other forms of guyot

plural

guyots·

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 guyot

What does guyot mean?

guyot means "a seamount of volcanic origin (especially in the Pacific Ocean)".

How many syllables are in guyot?

guyot has 2 syllables: gu-yot. The stress falls on "gu". In IPA it is /ˈɡaɪət/.

Is guyot a common word?

guyot 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.