Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pensacola

/ˌpɛnsəˈkəʊlə/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English

Syllables: pen-saco-la
IPA: /ˌpɛnsəˈkəʊlə/

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A city, the county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States.

noun

A Native American people who lived in the western part of what is now the Florida Panhandle and eastern Alabama for centuries before first contact with Europeans until early in the 18th century.

Etymology

From Choctaw pa̱shi (“hair (on the head)”) + okla (“people”). Literally, “people of the long hair”.

Word Breakdown

Root: pa̱shi

Derived Forms

Pensacolan

Rhymes With

cola ebola viola lola motorola angola hola loyola guardiola nola ola granola

Questions

How do you pronounce pensacola?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌpɛnsəˈkəʊlə/.
What does pensacola mean?: A city, the county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States.
Where does pensacola come from?: From Choctaw pa̱shi (“hair (on the head)”) + okla (“people”). Literally, “people of the long hair”.

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