shoshonean

Other forms of shoshonean

plural

shoshoneans·

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 shoshonean

What does shoshonean mean?

shoshonean means "a subfamily of Uto-Aztecan languages spoken mainly in the southwestern United States".

How many syllables are in shoshonean?

shoshonean has 4 syllables and divides as sho-sho-ne-an 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.

What is another word for shoshonean?

Close synonyms include Shoshonean language, Shoshonian, Shoshonian language. 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 shoshonean a common word?

shoshonean is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.