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say it: sawk
sauk is a noun meaning "a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay". It is pronounced /ˈsɔk/ — sawk. It carries one recorded sense.
a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sauk come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.