bezzant

Questions about bezzant

What does bezzant mean?

bezzant means "a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages".

How many syllables are in bezzant?

bezzant has 2 syllables and divides as bez-zant 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 bezzant?

Close synonyms include bezant, byzant, solidus. 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 bezzant a common word?

bezzant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.