schipperke

1. 1.

   breed of small stocky black dogs originally used as watchdogs on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium

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Other forms of schipperke

plural

schipperkes·

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 schipperke

What does schipperke mean?

schipperke means "breed of small stocky black dogs originally used as watchdogs on boats in the Netherlands and Belgium".

How many syllables are in schipperke?

schipperke has 2 syllables: schip-perke. The stress falls on "schip".

Is schipperke a common word?

schipperke 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.