tanoan

Questions about tanoan

What does tanoan mean?

tanoan means "a family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States".

How many syllables are in tanoan?

tanoan has 3 syllables and divides as ta-no-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 tanoan?

Close synonyms include Tanoan 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 tanoan a common word?

tanoan 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.