yukon

Other forms of yukon

plural

yukons·

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 yukon

What does yukon mean?

yukon means "a North American river that flows westward from the Yukon Territory through central Alaska to the Bering Sea". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in yukon?

yukon has 2 syllables: yu-kon. The stress falls on "yu". In IPA it is /ˈjuˌkɑn/.

What is another word for yukon?

Close synonyms include Yukon River, Yukon Territory. 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 yukon a common word?

yukon 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.

What rhymes with yukon?

9 words rhyme with yukon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.