jiddah

Questions about jiddah

What does jiddah mean?

jiddah means "port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea; near Mecca".

How many syllables are in jiddah?

jiddah has 2 syllables and divides as jid-dah 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 jiddah?

Close synonyms include Jeddah, Jed'dah, Jidda. 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 jiddah a common word?

jiddah 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.