chanukkah

Other forms of chanukkah

plural

chanukkahs·

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 chanukkah

What does chanukkah mean?

chanukkah means "(Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC".

How many syllables are in chanukkah?

chanukkah has 3 syllables and divides as cha-nuk-kah 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 chanukkah?

Close synonyms include Hanukkah, Hanukah, Hannukah, Chanukah, Channukah. 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 chanukkah a common word?

chanukkah 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.