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Wabash.

A number of places in the United States:

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

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name/ˈwɔbæʃ/General-American/ˈwɑbæʃ/General-American
  1. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Phillips County, Arkansas.

  2. A number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Wabash County, Indiana.

  3. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Cass County, Nebraska.

  4. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio.

  5. A number of places in the United States: A ghost town in Mineral County, West Virginia.

  6. A number of places in the United States: A number of townships in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, listed under Wabash Township.

  7. A number of places in the United States: A river in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, which is a tributary of the Ohio River; in full, the Wabash River.

  8. The former Wabash Railroad.

    historical
Where this word comes from

Via French Ouabache, from Miami [Term?] (“it shines white”), referring to the Wabash River (which has a limestone bed), ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *wa·p- (“(be) white”).

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