chiromancy

Questions about chiromancy

What does chiromancy mean?

chiromancy means "telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand".

How many syllables are in chiromancy?

chiromancy has 4 syllables and divides as chi-ro-man-cy 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 chiromancy?

Close synonyms include palmistry, palm reading, chirology. 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 chiromancy a common word?

chiromancy 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.