mississippian

Other forms of mississippian

plural

mississippians·

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 mississippian

What does mississippian mean?

mississippian means "from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mississippian?

mississippian has 5 syllables: mis-sis-sip-pi-an. The stress falls on "sip". In IPA it is /ˌmɪsɪˈsɪpiən/.

What is another word for mississippian?

Close synonyms include Missippian period, Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period. 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 mississippian a common word?

mississippian 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.