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marquesan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English

Syllables
mar-que-san
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to the Marquesas Islands.

noun

An inhabitant of the Marquesas Islands.

name

A collection of East-Central Polynesian dialects, of the Marquesic group, spoken in the Marquesas Islands.

Etymology

From Marquesas + -an.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more Marquesan (comparative) most Marquesan (superlative) Marquesans (plural)

Questions

What does marquesan mean?
Of or pertaining to the Marquesas Islands.
Where does marquesan come from?
From Marquesas + -an.

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