Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

canarsee

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ca-narsee
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island at the time the Dutch colonized New Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s.

Inflected Forms

Canarsees (plural) Canarse (alternative) Canarsie (alternative)

Questions

What does canarsee mean?: A member of a band of Munsee-speaking Lenape who inhabited the westernmost end of Long Island at the time the Dutch colonized New Amsterdam in the 1620s and 1630s.

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