visayan

Questions about visayan

What does visayan mean?

visayan means "a member of the most numerous indigenous people of the Philippines".

How many syllables are in visayan?

visayan has 2 syllables and divides as vi-sayan under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for visayan?

Close synonyms include Bisayan. 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 visayan a common word?

visayan 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.