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kamloops

/ˈkæmlups/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English

Syllables
kam-loops
IPA
/ˈkæmlups/
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A city, the seat of the Regional District of Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, Canada, located at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River.

name

Ellipsis of Kamloops Lake: a lake in British Columbia, Canada, located at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River.

Etymology

Borrowed from Shuswap tk'əmlúps (“meeting of the rivers”). A derivation from French Camp des Loups (“Camp of Wolves”) is probably a folk etymology.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Phrases

Kamloops rainbow trout Kamloops trout

Questions

How do you pronounce kamloops?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkæmlups/.
What does kamloops mean?
A city, the seat of the Regional District of Thompson-Nicola, British Columbia, Canada, located at the confluence of the two branches of the Thompson River.
Where does kamloops come from?
It is traced to French.

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