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commonwealth of independent states

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.22 in modern English

Syllables
com-mon-wealth of in-de-pen-den-t s-tates
IPA
50
Scrabble Score
31
Letters
8
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An alliance and confederation of nine former Soviet republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed as a successor to the Soviet Union.

Inflected Forms

the Commonwealth of Independent States (canonical)

Synonyms

CIS C.I.S.

Questions

What does commonwealth of independent states mean?
An alliance and confederation of nine former Soviet republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed as a successor to the Soviet Union.

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