housatonic

Questions about housatonic

What does housatonic mean?

housatonic means "a river that rises in western Massachusetts and flows south through Connecticut to empty into Long Island Sound".

How many syllables are in housatonic?

housatonic has 4 syllables and divides as hou-sa-to-nic 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 housatonic?

Close synonyms include Housatonic River. 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 housatonic a common word?

housatonic 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.