seychelles

Other forms of seychelles

plural

seychelleses·

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 seychelles

What does seychelles mean?

seychelles means "a republic on the Seychelles islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1976". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in seychelles?

seychelles has 2 syllables: seychel-les. The stress falls on "seychel". In IPA it is /ˈseɪʃɛlz/.

What is another word for seychelles?

Close synonyms include Republic of Seychelles, Seychelles islands. 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 seychelles a common word?

seychelles is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.