franche-comte

1. 1.

   a former province of eastern France

   BroaderFrench region

   Part ofFrance

Questions about franche-comte

What does franche-comte mean?

franche-comte means "a former province of eastern France".

How many syllables are in franche-comte?

franche-comte has 3 syllables and divides as fran-che--comte 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.

Is franche-comte a common word?

franche-comte 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.