teton

Other forms of teton

plural

tetons·

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 teton

What does teton mean?

teton means "a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains".

How many syllables are in teton?

teton has 2 syllables: te-ton. The stress falls on "te". In IPA it is /ˈtitən/.

What is another word for teton?

Close synonyms include Lakota, Teton Sioux, Teton Dakota. 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 teton a common word?

teton 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.