charabanc

Other forms of charabanc

plural

charabancs·

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 charabanc

What does charabanc mean?

charabanc means "a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport".

How many syllables are in charabanc?

charabanc has 3 syllables and divides as cha-ra-banc under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for charabanc?

Close synonyms include bus, autobus, coach, double-decker, jitney. 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 charabanc a common word?

charabanc 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.