Chipewyan
/t͡ʃɪp.əˈwaɪ.ən/noun
Chipewyan is a noun meaning “A member of a Native American tribe of Central Canada, in the regions of Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, and Saskatchewan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-I-P-E-W-Y-A-N, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Chipewyan is Chipewyans.
What does Chipewyan mean?
noun
- 1
A member of a Native American tribe of Central Canada, in the regions of Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, and Saskatchewan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Chipewyan?
- /t͡ʃɪp.əˈwaɪ.ən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Chipewyan
- Chipewyans plural
- Chippewyan
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Chipewyan?
Chipewyan appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Chipewyan come from?
From Plains Cree ᒌᐘᔮᐣ (Cīpwayān, “pointed skin”), from ᒌᐚᐤ (cīpwāw, “to be pointed”) + ᐘᔮᐣ (wayān, “skin, hide”) – a reference to the cut and style of Chipewyan parkas.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).