Songhai
/sɒŋˈɡaɪ/noun
Songhai is a noun meaning “Any member of a West African people who speak the Songhai languages” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-O-N-G-H-A-I, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Songhai is Songhais.
What does Songhai mean?
noun
- 1
Any member of a West African people who speak the Songhai languages.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Songhai?
- /sɒŋˈɡaɪ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Songhai
- Songhais plural
- Songai
- Songhay
- Songoi
- Sonrai
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Songhai?
Songhai appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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).