yenisey

Questions about yenisey

What does yenisey mean?

yenisey means "a Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea".

How many syllables are in yenisey?

yenisey has 3 syllables and divides as ye-ni-sey 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 yenisey?

Close synonyms include Yenisei, Yenisei River, Yenisey River. 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 yenisey a common word?

yenisey 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.