archipelagic

1. 1.

   relating to or part of an archipelago

   “an archipelagic war”

Questions about archipelagic

What does archipelagic mean?

archipelagic means "relating to or part of an archipelago".

How many syllables are in archipelagic?

archipelagic has 5 syllables and divides as ar-chi-pe-la-gic 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.

Is archipelagic a common word?

archipelagic 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.