sahaptin

Other forms of sahaptin

plural

sahaptins·

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 sahaptin

What does sahaptin mean?

sahaptin means "a member of a North American Indian people who lived in Oregon along the Columbia river and its tributaries in Washington and northern Idaho". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sahaptin?

sahaptin has 3 syllables: sa-hap-tin. The stress falls on "sa".

What is another word for sahaptin?

Close synonyms include Shahaptian, Sahaptino, Shahaptian. 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 sahaptin a common word?

sahaptin 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.