archipelago

Other forms of archipelago

plural

archipelagoes

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about archipelago

What does archipelago mean?

archipelago means "a group of many islands in a large body of water".

How many syllables are in archipelago?

archipelago has 5 syllables: ar-chi-pel-a-go. The stress falls on "pel". In IPA it is /ˌɑɹkəˈpɛləˌɡoʊ/.

Is archipelago a common word?

archipelago is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with archipelago?

19 words rhyme with archipelago. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.