shanghai

Other forms of shanghai

plural

shanghais·

past tense

shanghaied·

present participle

shanghaiing·

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 shanghai

What does shanghai mean?

shanghai means "the largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shanghai?

shanghai has 2 syllables: shang-hai. The stress falls on "shang". In IPA it is /ˈʃæŋˈhaɪ/.

What is another word for shanghai?

Close synonyms include impress. 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 shanghai a common word?

shanghai is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with shanghai?

2 words rhyme with shanghai. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.