lappland

Questions about lappland

What does lappland mean?

lappland means "a region in northmost Europe inhabited by Lapps".

How many syllables are in lappland?

lappland has 2 syllables and divides as lap-pland 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 lappland?

Close synonyms include Lapland. 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 lappland a common word?

lappland 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.