loanword

Questions about loanword

What does loanword mean?

loanword means "a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English".

How many syllables are in loanword?

loanword has 3 syllables and divides as lo-an-word 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 loanword?

Close synonyms include loan. 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 loanword a common word?

loanword 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.