uygur

Other forms of uygur

plural

uygurs·

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 uygur

What does uygur mean?

uygur 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 uygur?

uygur has 2 syllables: uy-gur. The stress falls on "uy".

What is another word for uygur?

Close synonyms include Uighur, Uigur, Uighur, Uigur, 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 uygur a common word?

uygur 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.