yeniseian

Other forms of yeniseian

plural

yeniseians·

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 yeniseian

What does yeniseian mean?

yeniseian means "a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yeniseian?

yeniseian has 4 syllables and divides as ye-ni-se-ian under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for yeniseian?

Close synonyms include Enets, Entsi, Entsy, Yenisei, Yenisei-Samoyed. 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 yeniseian a common word?

yeniseian 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.