okinawa

Other forms of okinawa

plural

okinawas·

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 okinawa

What does okinawa mean?

okinawa means "the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in okinawa?

okinawa has 4 syllables: o-kin-a-wa. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˌoʊˌkɪˈnɑwə/.

What is another word for okinawa?

Close synonyms include Okinawa campaign. 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 okinawa a common word?

okinawa 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.