saracen

Questions about saracen

What does saracen mean?

saracen means "(historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in saracen?

saracen has 3 syllables and divides as sa-ra-cen 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.

Is saracen a common word?

saracen is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.