lavabo

Questions about lavabo

What does lavabo mean?

lavabo means "a basin for washing the hands (`wash-hand basin' is a British expression)".

How many syllables are in lavabo?

lavabo has 3 syllables and divides as la-va-bo 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 lavabo?

Close synonyms include washbasin, handbasin, washbowl, wash-hand basin. 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 lavabo a common word?

lavabo 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.