mocambique

Other forms of mocambique

plural

mocambiques·

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 mocambique

What does mocambique mean?

mocambique means "a republic on the southeastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975".

How many syllables are in mocambique?

mocambique has 4 syllables and divides as mo-cam-biq-ue 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 mocambique?

Close synonyms include Mozambique, Republic of Mozambique. 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 mocambique a common word?

mocambique 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.