mojave

Other forms of mojave

plural

mojaves·

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 mojave

What does mojave mean?

mojave means "a member of the North American Indian people formerly living in the Colorado river valley in Arizona and Nevada and California". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mojave?

mojave has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /moʊˈhɑvi/.

What is another word for mojave?

Close synonyms include Mohave, Mojave Desert, Mohave, Mohave Desert, Mohave. 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 mojave a common word?

mojave 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.