Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

geechee

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English

Syllables: geechee
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Gullah (South Carolina island language and culture)

noun

Gullah (member of South Carolina island culture)

adj

Gullah (pertaining to South Carolina island culture)

Etymology

Clipping of Ogeechee. From the Ogeechee River, a river in South Carolina, where this West African derived community settled. From Ogeechee, from the Muskogee language term meaning "river of the Uchees", from Creek Uchee, the Muskogee Creek name for the Yuchi people (an exonym provided by the Creek).

Word Breakdown

Root: Uchee

Inflected Forms

Geechy (alternative) Geechie (alternative) Geechees (plural) more Geechee (comparative) most Geechee (superlative)

Phrases

Gullah Geechee

Questions

What does geechee mean?: Gullah (South Carolina island language and culture)
Where does geechee come from?: Clipping of Ogeechee. From the Ogeechee River, a river in South Carolina, where this West African derived community settled. From Ogeechee, from the Muskogee language term meaning "river of the Uchees", from Creek Uchee, the Muskogee Creek name for the Yuchi people (an exonym provided by the Creek).

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