spotsylvania

Other forms of spotsylvania

plural

spotsylvanias·

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 spotsylvania

What does spotsylvania mean?

spotsylvania means "a village in northeastern Virginia where battles were fought during the American Civil War". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spotsylvania?

spotsylvania has 5 syllables: spot-syl-va-ni-a. The stress falls on "va".

What is another word for spotsylvania?

Close synonyms include battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse. 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 spotsylvania a common word?

spotsylvania 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.