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champagne

cham·pagne/ʃæmˈpeɪn/noun, adjective, verb

champagne is spelled C-H-A-M-P-A-G-N-E, 2 syllables: cham·pagne. The wrong spelling people search most is champange: about 320 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 37 of all searches for the word. Champagne is a noun meaning “A sparkling white wine made from a blend of grapes, especially Chardonnay and pinot, produced in Champagne…”. The plural of champagne is champagnes.

How many letters and syllables are in champagne?

Letters9: C-H-A-M-P-A-G-N-E
Syllables2: cham·pagne
In writing7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, champange, about 320 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell champagne?

Champagne is spelled C-H-A-M-P-A-G-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 37 of the searches for champagne in either form.

champagnethe right spelling11,460 searches a month
champangeg and n swapped320 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is champagne?

Champagne appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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).

How do you pronounce champagne?

  • US /ʃæmˈpeɪn/
  • British /ʃamˈpɛjn/
  • Australia /ʃæːmˈpæɪn/

Champagne has 2 syllables, split cham·pagne in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-champagne.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-champagne.wav, En-au-champagne.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with champagne?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as champagne from its last stressed vowel (/eɪn/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of champagne

  • champagnes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • champagning participle, present
  • champagned participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does champagne mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A sparkling white wine made from a blend of grapes, especially Chardonnay and pinot, produced in Champagne, France, by the méthode champenoise.

  2. 2

    informalAny sparkling wine made by the méthode champenoise.

    I’ve been saving an excellent Brazilian champagne for a special occasion.

  3. 3

    informalAny sparkling white wine.

  4. 4

    A glass of champagne.

  5. 5

    A very pale brownish-gold colour, similar to that of champagne.

  6. 6

    (An ordinary occupying) the base of the shield, either flat-topped (like the chief at the top of the shield) or curved (as in a mount or trimount).

    Alternative forms: champaine, champain

adjective

  1. 1

    Of a very pale brownish-gold colour, similar to that of champagne.

  2. 2

    Alternative form of champaine.

verb

  1. 1

    To ply or treat with champagne.

  2. 2

    To drink champagne.

noun

as Champagne
  1. 1

    Alternative form of champagne (“type of sparkling wine made in France”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate champagne?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of champagne: sham.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Champagne in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
FrenchChampagne (cultural region of France), champagne (sparkling white wine produced in Champagne), crémant, mousseux (any sparkling white wine)
GermanChampagne (cultural region of France), Champagner, Champagnerwein, Sekt (sparkling white wine produced in Champagne), Schaumwein (any sparkling white wine)
PortugueseChampanhe, Champanha, Champagne (cultural region of France), champanhe, champanha, champagne (sparkling white wine produced in Champagne)
SpanishChampaña (cultural region of France), champaña, champán (sparkling white wine produced in Champagne)

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 champagne come from?

Borrowed from French champagne (“sparkling wine from the Champagne region”), from Champagne (“region and former province of France”), from Late Latin campānia (in full Campānia Rēmēnsis), from campāneus (“of or pertaining to the fields”), from Latin campus (“level ground; field, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”). The English word is a doublet of campagna (“flat stretch of countryside”) (dated), campaign, and campania.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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