chinkapin

Questions about chinkapin

What does chinkapin mean?

chinkapin means "small nut of either of two small chestnut trees of the southern United States; resembles a hazelnut".

How many syllables are in chinkapin?

chinkapin has 3 syllables and divides as chin-ka-pin 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 chinkapin?

Close synonyms include chincapin, chinquapin. 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 chinkapin a common word?

chinkapin 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.