samoyed

Other forms of samoyed

plural

samoyeds·

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 samoyed

What does samoyed mean?

samoyed means "a Samoyedic-speaking person in northwestern Siberia". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in samoyed?

samoyed has 2 syllables and divides as sa-moyed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for samoyed?

Close synonyms include Samoyedic, Samoyede. 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 samoyed a common word?

samoyed 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.