rocambole

Questions about rocambole

What does rocambole mean?

rocambole means "European leek cultivated and used like leeks".

How many syllables are in rocambole?

rocambole has 4 syllables and divides as ro-cam-bo-le 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 rocambole?

Close synonyms include sand leek, giant garlic, Spanish garlic, Allium scorodoprasum. 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 rocambole a common word?

rocambole 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.