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Lamaze

/ləˈmɑz/noun

Lamaze is spelled L-A-M-A-Z-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Lamaze means “A natural childbirth technique” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Lamaze?

Letters6: L-A-M-A-Z-E
Syllables2 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 113,022nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is Lamaze?

Lamaze appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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 Lamaze?

  • US /ləˈmɑz/

Lamaze has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

What rhymes with Lamaze?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as Lamaze from its last stressed vowel (/ɑz/):

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).

What does Lamaze mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A natural childbirth technique.

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

Where does Lamaze come from?

Developed in the 1940s by French obstetrician Dr. Ferdinand Lamaze.

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

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