say it: suh-KWOY-uh
sequoyah is a noun meaning "Cherokee who created a notation for writing the Cherokee language (1770-1843)". It carries one recorded sense.
Cherokee who created a notation for writing the Cherokee language (1770-1843)
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 sequoyah 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.