nord-pas-de-calais

1. 1.

   a region in northeastern France

   BroaderFrench region

   Part ofFrance

Questions about nord-pas-de-calais

What does nord-pas-de-calais mean?

nord-pas-de-calais means "a region in northeastern France".

How many syllables are in nord-pas-de-calais?

nord-pas-de-calais has 5 syllables and divides as nord--pas--de--ca-lais 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.

Is nord-pas-de-calais a common word?

nord-pas-de-calais 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.