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: cha-nuk-kah. The stress falls on "cha".

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.