antepenultima

What does antepenultima mean?

antepenultima means "the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end".

How many syllables are in antepenultima?

antepenultima has 6 syllables and divides as an-te-pe-nul-ti-ma under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for antepenultima?

Close synonyms include antepenult, antepenultimate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is antepenultima a common word?

antepenultima is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for antepenultima come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.