selkup

Other forms of selkup

plural

selkups·

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 selkup

What does selkup mean?

selkup means "one of the people of mixed Ostyak and Samoyed origin in Siberia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in selkup?

selkup has 2 syllables: sel-kup. The stress falls on "sel".

What is another word for selkup?

Close synonyms include Ostyak-Samoyed, Ostyak-Samoyed. 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 selkup a common word?

selkup 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.