clinic

Other forms of clinic

plural

clinics·

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 clinic

What does clinic mean?

clinic means "a medical establishment run by a group of medical specialists". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clinic?

clinic has 2 syllables: clin-ic. The stress falls on "clin". In IPA it is /ˈklɪnɪk/.

Is clinic a common word?

clinic is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with clinic?

1 word rhymes with clinic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.