caleche

Other forms of caleche

plural

caleches·

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 caleche

What does caleche mean?

caleche means "a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in caleche?

caleche has 2 syllables: ca-leche. The stress falls on "ca".

What is another word for caleche?

Close synonyms include calash, calash, calash top. 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 caleche a common word?

caleche 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.