somnambulate

Questions about somnambulate

What does somnambulate mean?

somnambulate means "walk in one's sleep".

How many syllables are in somnambulate?

somnambulate has 4 syllables and divides as som-nam-bu-late 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 somnambulate?

Close synonyms include sleepwalk. 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 somnambulate a common word?

somnambulate 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.