mississippi

Other forms of mississippi

plural

mississippis·

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 mississippi

What does mississippi mean?

mississippi means "a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mississippi?

mississippi has 4 syllables: mis-sis-sip-pi. The stress falls on "sip". In IPA it is /ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpi/.

What is another word for mississippi?

Close synonyms include Mississippi River, Magnolia State, MS, Miss.. 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 mississippi a common word?

mississippi is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.