fredericksburg

Other forms of fredericksburg

plural

fredericksburgs·

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 fredericksburg

What does fredericksburg mean?

fredericksburg means "a town in northeastern Virginia on the Rappahannock River". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fredericksburg?

fredericksburg has 3 syllables: freder-icks-burg. The stress falls on "freder". In IPA it is /ˈfɹɛdɹɪksbɚɡ/.

What is another word for fredericksburg?

Close synonyms include Battle of Fredericksburg. 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 fredericksburg a common word?

fredericksburg 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.