carillon

Other forms of carillon

plural

carillons·

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 carillon

What does carillon mean?

carillon means "set of bells hung in a bell tower". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carillon?

carillon has 3 syllables: car-il-lon. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɛɹəˌlɑn/.

What is another word for carillon?

Close synonyms include bell ringing, carillon playing. 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 carillon a common word?

carillon 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 carillon?

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