dunkirk

Other forms of dunkirk

plural

dunkirks·

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 dunkirk

What does dunkirk mean?

dunkirk means "a crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dunkirk?

dunkirk has 2 syllables: dun-kirk. The stress falls on "dun". In IPA it is /ˈdʌnkɚk/.

What is another word for dunkirk?

Close synonyms include Dunkerque, Dunkerque. 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 dunkirk a common word?

dunkirk 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.