salish

Other forms of salish

plural

salishes·

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 salish

What does salish mean?

salish means "a family of Mosan language spoken in northwestern United States and western Canada". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in salish?

salish has 2 syllables: sa-lish. The stress falls on "sa".

What is another word for salish?

Close synonyms include Salishan. 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 salish a common word?

salish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.