how to pronounce champagne

/ʃɑ̃.paɲ/

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champagne is pronounced in two syllables

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ɑ̃

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An example use of champagne in a speech by a native speaker of standard french:

“… ma clé à double jeu champagne n'était …”

meanings of champagne

noun:

Base; bottom third of a coat of arms.
An expanse of flat and open cultivated earth.
Sparkling wine, generic champagne.
Champagne (“wine from the Champagne region of France").

name:

Champagne, a region in the northeast of France, the terroir of the wine champagne.

champagne frequency in french - B2 level of CEFR

the word champagne occurs in french on average 19 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.