baccalaureate

Other forms of baccalaureate

plural

baccalaureates·

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 baccalaureate

What does baccalaureate mean?

baccalaureate means "a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their commencement ceremonies". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in baccalaureate?

baccalaureate has 5 syllables: bac-ca-la-u-reate. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌbækəˈlɔɹiət/.

What is another word for baccalaureate?

Close synonyms include bachelor's degree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is baccalaureate a common word?

baccalaureate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 baccalaureate?

1 word rhymes with baccalaureate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.