apotropaic

1. 1.

   having the power to prevent evil or bad luck

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Questions about apotropaic

What does apotropaic mean?

apotropaic means "having the power to prevent evil or bad luck".

How many syllables are in apotropaic?

apotropaic has 4 syllables: a-po-tro-paic. The stress falls on "tro".

Is apotropaic a common word?

apotropaic 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.