dactylic

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   of or consisting of dactyls

   “dactylic meter”

   prosody

Questions about dactylic

What does dactylic mean?

dactylic means "of or consisting of dactyls".

How many syllables are in dactylic?

dactylic has 3 syllables: dac-ty-lic. The stress falls on "ty".

Is dactylic a common word?

dactylic 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.