wisconsin

1. 1.

   a tributary of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin

   SynonymsWisconsin River

   Broaderriver
2. 2.

   a midwestern state in north central United States

   SynonymsBadger StateWIWis.Wisc.

   BroaderAmerican state

   Part ofUnited StatesMidwest

   PartsAppletonEau ClaireGreen BayLa CrosseMadisonMilwaukee

Other forms of wisconsin

plural

wisconsins·

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 wisconsin

What does wisconsin mean?

wisconsin means "a tributary of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wisconsin?

wisconsin has 3 syllables: wi-scon-sin. The stress falls on "scon". In IPA it is /wɪˈskɑnsən/.

What is another word for wisconsin?

Close synonyms include Wisconsin River, Badger State, WI, Wis., Wisc.. 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 wisconsin a common word?

wisconsin is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.