biannually

1. 1.

   twice a year

   “we hold our big sale biannually”

Questions about biannually

What does biannually mean?

biannually means "twice a year".

How many syllables are in biannually?

biannually has 5 syllables and divides as bi-an-nu-al-ly 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 biannually a common word?

biannually 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.