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say it: see-ER-uh
sierra is a noun meaning "a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
a Spanish mackerel of western North America
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 sierra 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.