yenisei

Other forms of yenisei

plural

yeniseis·

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 yenisei

What does yenisei mean?

yenisei means "a Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yenisei?

yenisei has 3 syllables: ye-ni-sei. The stress falls on "ye".

What is another word for yenisei?

Close synonyms include Yenisei River, Yenisey, Yenisey River, Enets, Entsi. 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 yenisei a common word?

yenisei 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.