lafayette

Other forms of lafayette

plural

lafayettes·

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 lafayette

What does lafayette mean?

lafayette means "French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lafayette?

lafayette has 3 syllables: la-fa-yette. The stress falls on "yette". In IPA it is /ˌlɑfiˈɛt/.

What is another word for lafayette?

Close synonyms include La Fayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. 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 lafayette a common word?

lafayette is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with lafayette?

8 words rhyme with lafayette. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.