tennessee

Other forms of tennessee

plural

tennessees·

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 tennessee

What does tennessee mean?

tennessee means "a state in east central United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tennessee?

tennessee has 3 syllables: ten-nes-see. The stress falls on "see". In IPA it is /ˌtɛnəˈsi/.

What is another word for tennessee?

Close synonyms include Volunteer State, TN, Tenn., Tennessee River. 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 tennessee a common word?

tennessee is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 tennessee?

37 words rhyme with tennessee. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.