yemen

Other forms of yemen

plural

yemens·

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 yemen

What does yemen mean?

yemen means "a republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990".

How many syllables are in yemen?

yemen has 2 syllables: yem-en. The stress falls on "yem". In IPA it is /ˈjɛmən/.

What is another word for yemen?

Close synonyms include Republic of Yemen. 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 yemen a common word?

yemen 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.