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say it: JAH-plin
joplin is a noun meaning "United States singer who died of a drug overdose at the height of her popularity (1943-1970)". It is pronounced /ˈdʒɑplɪn/ — JAH-plin. It carries 2 recorded senses.
United States singer who died of a drug overdose at the height of her popularity (1943-1970)
United States composer who was the first creator of ragtime to write down his compositions (1868-1917)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for joplin come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.