uigur

Other forms of uigur

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 uigur

What does uigur mean?

uigur 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 uigur?

uigur has 3 syllables: u-i-gur. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for uigur?

Close synonyms include Uighur, Uygur, Uighur, Uygur, Uighur. 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 uigur a common word?

uigur 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.