watutsi

Questions about watutsi

What does watutsi mean?

watutsi means "a member of a Bantu speaking people living in Rwanda and Burundi".

How many syllables are in watutsi?

watutsi has 3 syllables and divides as wa-tut-si 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 watutsi?

Close synonyms include Tutsi, Watusi. 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 watutsi a common word?

watutsi 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.