jambon

Questions about jambon

What does jambon mean?

jambon means "meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)".

How many syllables are in jambon?

jambon has 2 syllables and divides as jam-bon 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 jambon?

Close synonyms include ham, gammon. 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 jambon a common word?

jambon 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.