crevasse

1. 1.

   a deep fissure

   Broadercrack

Other forms of crevasse

plural

crevasses·

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 crevasse

What does crevasse mean?

crevasse means "a deep fissure".

How many syllables are in crevasse?

crevasse has 2 syllables: cre-vasse. The stress falls on "vasse". In IPA it is /kɹəˈvæs/.

Is crevasse a common word?

crevasse 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.