champlain

Other forms of champlain

plural

champlains·

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 champlain

What does champlain mean?

champlain means "French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Quebec (1567-1635)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in champlain?

champlain has 2 syllables: cham-plain. The stress falls on "plain". In IPA it is /ʃæmˈpleɪn/.

What is another word for champlain?

Close synonyms include Samuel de Champlain, Lake Champlain. 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 champlain a common word?

champlain 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 champlain?

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