silesia

Other forms of silesia

plural

silesias·

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 silesia

What does silesia mean?

silesia means "a region of central Europe rich in deposits of coal and iron ore; annexed by Prussia in 1742 but now largely in Poland". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in silesia?

silesia has 3 syllables: si-le-sia. The stress falls on "le". In IPA it is /sɪˈlizə/.

What is another word for silesia?

Close synonyms include Slask, Slezsko, Schlesien. 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 silesia a common word?

silesia 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.

What rhymes with silesia?

1 word rhymes with silesia. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.