xhosa

Other forms of xhosa

plural

xhosas·

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 xhosa

What does xhosa mean?

xhosa means "a member of the Negroid people of southern South Africa". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in xhosa?

xhosa has 2 syllables: xho-sa. The stress falls on "xho". In IPA it is /ˈzoʊʃə/.

Is xhosa a common word?

xhosa is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.