lagoon
/ləˈɡuːn/noun
lagoon is a noun meaning “A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-G-O-O-N and has 2 syllables, and it appears 2.7 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lagoon is lagoons.
What does lagoon mean?
noun
- 1
A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce lagoon?
- US /ləˈɡuːn/
Lagoon has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-lagoon.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of lagoon
- lagoons plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lagoon?
Lagoon appears 2.7 times per million words in written English, the 16,455th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Lagoon in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense shallow body of water:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | lagon, lagune, étang |
| German | Lagune |
| Portuguese | laguna, albufeira |
| Spanish | laguna, estero, albufera, albina, albariza, cucha |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lagoon come from?
Borrowed from French lagune, from Italian laguna, from Latin lacūna. Related to Old English lagu via Proto-Indo-European. Doublet of lacuna and lacune.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).