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Missippi

/mɪˈsɪpi/

Missippi is the nonstandard form of Mississippi.

Meaning of Mississippi

Proper noun (1)

Mississippi

  1. A state of the United States.
    • Mississippi mud is soaked in black blood / How many more must die?1970, Black Blood & The Chocolate Pickles, “Mississippi Mud”
  2. A major river in the United States, flowing southward from north-central Minnesota through Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Minnesota and Louisiana, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.
    Synonyms:
    the Big Muddy, Big River, Body of a Nation, El Grande, El Grande de Soto, the Father of Waters, the Gathering of Waters, the Great River, the Mighty Mississippi, the Mississippi River

Proper noun (2)

the Mississippi

  1. A river in Canada that flows from eastern Ontario into the Ottawa River.

See all 6 meanings of Mississippi

Forms of Missippi

alternative formMiss'ippi

Questions about Missippi

What is Missippi the nonstandard form of?
Missippi is the nonstandard form of Mississippi.
How do you pronounce Missippi?
Missippi is pronounced /mɪˈsɪpi/.

Words near Missippi in the dictionary

  1. missionless
  2. missionlessness
  3. missionology
  4. missions
  5. missions impossible
  6. Missippi
  7. Missiquoi
  8. missis
  9. Missisauga
  10. Missisaugas
  11. missises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Missippi (page history and authors); Mississippi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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