Loading page
say it: YAH-zoo
yazoo is a noun meaning "a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg". It is pronounced /ˈjɑˌzu/ — YAH-zoo. It carries one recorded sense.
a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg
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 yazoo come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.