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siscowet

/ˈsɪs.kəˌwɛt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
sis-cowet
IPA
/ˈsɪs.kəˌwɛt/
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A freshwater fish from Lake Superior in the Great Lakes, a variety of the lake trout.

Etymology

From an Ojibwe word, given by some English dictionaries as pemitewiskawet ("fish with oily meat") (compare bimide (“grease”), -skaw- (“meat of a fish”), -e (“an incorporating final”)), perhaps via French ciscoette.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

siscowets (plural) ciscoette (alternative) ciscovet (alternative) siskawitz (alternative) siskiwit (alternative) siskowet (alternative)

Questions

How do you pronounce siscowet?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɪs.kəˌwɛt/.
What does siscowet mean?
A freshwater fish from Lake Superior in the Great Lakes, a variety of the lake trout.
Where does siscowet come from?
It is traced to French.

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