soudan

Other forms of soudan

plural

soudans·

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 soudan

What does soudan mean?

soudan means "a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soudan?

soudan has 2 syllables: sou-dan. The stress falls on "sou".

What is another word for soudan?

Close synonyms include Sudan, Republic of the Sudan, Sudan. 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 soudan a common word?

soudan 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.