odessa

Other forms of odessa

plural

odessas·

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 odessa

What does odessa mean?

odessa means "a port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in odessa?

odessa has 3 syllables: o-des-sa. The stress falls on "des". In IPA it is /oʊˈdɛsə/.

What is another word for odessa?

Close synonyms include Odesa. 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 odessa a common word?

odessa 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.