ottawa

Other forms of ottawa

plural

ottawas·

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 ottawa

What does ottawa mean?

ottawa means "a member of the Algonquian people of southern Ontario". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ottawa?

ottawa has 3 syllables: ot-ta-wa. The stress falls on "ot". In IPA it is /ˈɑtəˌwɑ/.

What is another word for ottawa?

Close synonyms include Outaouais, Ottawa river, Canadian capital, capital of Canada. 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 ottawa a common word?

ottawa 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 ottawa?

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