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biloxi

/bəlˈʌksi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English

Syllables
biloxi
IPA
/bəlˈʌksi/
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in southeast Mississippi.

name

The extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Biloxi.

name

A city in and one of the two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.

name

A village in southeastern Texas.

Etymology

Borrowed from French bilocchy (recorded by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1699), itself a corruption of Biloxi Tanêks ąyaadi (literally “first people”). The shift of /t/ to /b/ and /n/ to /l/ occurred via Mobilian, however James Owen Dorsey has stated that this “agrees with the laws of Siouan consonant changes”.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: bilocchy, Tanêks ąyaadi, -

Inflected Forms

Biloxis (plural)

Synonyms

biloxi language tunica-biloxi

Rhymes With

wuxi

Questions

How do you pronounce biloxi?
The recorded pronunciation is /bəlˈʌksi/.
What does biloxi mean?
A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in southeast Mississippi.
Where does biloxi come from?
It is traced to French.

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