uighur

Other forms of uighur

plural

uigurs

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 uighur

What does uighur mean?

uighur means "a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in uighur?

uighur has 3 syllables: u-ig-hur. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for uighur?

Close synonyms include Uigur, Uygur, Uigur, Uygur, Uigur. 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 uighur a common word?

uighur 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.