nihau

Questions about nihau

What does nihau mean?

nihau means "the most northwestern Hawaiian island (beyond Kauai)".

How many syllables are in nihau?

nihau has 2 syllables and divides as ni-hau 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 nihau?

Close synonyms include Nihau Island. 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 nihau a common word?

nihau 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.