shoshone

Other forms of shoshone

plural

shoshones·

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 shoshone

What does shoshone mean?

shoshone means "a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shoshone?

shoshone has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ʃoʊˈʃoʊni/.

What is another word for shoshone?

Close synonyms include Shoshoni. 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 shoshone a common word?

shoshone 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.