wampumpeag

What does wampumpeag mean?

wampumpeag means "small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency".

How many syllables are in wampumpeag?

wampumpeag has 4 syllables and divides as wam-pum-pe-ag 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 wampumpeag?

Close synonyms include wampum, peag. 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 wampumpeag a common word?

wampumpeag 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wampumpeag come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.