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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
volapuk is a noun meaning "one of the first artificial language constructed for use as an auxiliary international language; based largely on English but with some German and French and Latin roots". It carries one recorded sense.
one of the first artificial language constructed for use as an auxiliary international language; based largely on English but with some German and French and Latin roots
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for volapuk come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.