brummagem

Other forms of brummagem

plural

brummagems·

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 brummagem

What does brummagem mean?

brummagem means "a city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brummagem?

brummagem has 3 syllables: brum-ma-gem. The stress falls on "brum".

What is another word for brummagem?

Close synonyms include Birmingham. 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 brummagem a common word?

brummagem 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.