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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

yakushima

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English

Syllables
yakushi-ma
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

One of the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.

Etymology

Japanese 屋久島

Origin

Word Breakdown

Questions

What does yakushima mean?
One of the Ōsumi Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
Where does yakushima come from?
It is traced to Japanese.

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