canticles

Other forms of canticles

plural

canticleses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about canticles

What does canticles mean?

canticles means "an Old Testament book consisting of a collection of love poems traditionally attributed to Solomon but actually written much later".

How many syllables are in canticles?

canticles has 2 syllables and divides as canti-cles 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 canticles?

Close synonyms include Song of Songs, Song of Solomon, Canticle of Canticles. 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 canticles a common word?

canticles 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.