langouste

Other forms of langouste

plural

langoustes·

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 langouste

What does langouste mean?

langouste means "warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in langouste?

langouste has 2 syllables and divides as lan-gouste 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 langouste?

Close synonyms include spiny lobster, rock lobster, crayfish, spiny lobster, rock lobster. 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 langouste a common word?

langouste 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.