franco-american

1. 1.

   an American who was born in France or whose ancestors were French

   BroaderAmerican

Questions about franco-american

What does franco-american mean?

franco-american means "an American who was born in France or whose ancestors were French".

How many syllables are in franco-american?

franco-american has 6 syllables and divides as fran-co--a-me-ri-can 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 franco-american a common word?

franco-american 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.