bougainville

Other forms of bougainville

plural

bougainvilles·

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 bougainville

What does bougainville mean?

bougainville means "French explorer who circumnavigated the globe accompanied by scientists (1729-1811)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bougainville?

bougainville has 3 syllables: bougain-vi-lle. The stress falls on "bougain". In IPA it is /ˈbuɡɪnˌvɪl/.

What is another word for bougainville?

Close synonyms include Louis Antoine de Bougainville. 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 bougainville a common word?

bougainville 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 bougainville?

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