helsingfors

Questions about helsingfors

What does helsingfors mean?

helsingfors means "the capital and largest city of Finland; located in southern Finland; a major port and commercial and cultural center".

How many syllables are in helsingfors?

helsingfors has 3 syllables and divides as hel-sing-fors 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.

What is another word for helsingfors?

Close synonyms include Helsinki, capital of Finland, Finnish capital. 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 helsingfors a common word?

helsingfors 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.