penutian

Other forms of penutian

plural

penutians·

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 penutian

What does penutian mean?

penutian means "a family of Amerindian language spoken in the great interior valley of California". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in penutian?

penutian has 4 syllables: pe-nu-ti-an. The stress falls on "ti".

Is penutian a common word?

penutian 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.