thalweg

What does thalweg mean?

thalweg means "the middle of the chief navigable channel of a waterway that forms the boundary line between states". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thalweg?

thalweg has 2 syllables and divides as thal-weg 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.

Is thalweg a common word?

thalweg 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thalweg come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.