iowan

1. 1.

   a native or resident of Iowa

   BroaderAmerican

Other forms of iowan

plural

iowans·

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 iowan

What does iowan mean?

iowan means "a native or resident of Iowa".

How many syllables are in iowan?

iowan has 3 syllables: i-o-wan. The stress falls on "i". In IPA it is /ˈaɪəwən/.

Is iowan a common word?

iowan 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.