townspeople

Questions about townspeople

What does townspeople mean?

townspeople means "the people living in a municipality smaller than a city".

How many syllables are in townspeople?

townspeople has 3 syllables: town-speo-ple. The stress falls on "town". In IPA it is /ˈtaʊnzˌpipəl/.

What is another word for townspeople?

Close synonyms include town, townsfolk. 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 townspeople a common word?

townspeople is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 townspeople?

1 word rhymes with townspeople. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.