mohawk

Other forms of mohawk

plural

mohawks·

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 mohawk

What does mohawk mean?

mohawk means "a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living along the Mohawk River in New York State". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mohawk?

mohawk has 2 syllables: mo-hawk. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /ˈmoʊˌhɔk/.

What is another word for mohawk?

Close synonyms include mohawk haircut. 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 mohawk a common word?

mohawk is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mohawk?

4 words rhyme with mohawk. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.