drachm

Other forms of drachm

plural

drachms·

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 drachm

What does drachm mean?

drachm means "a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drachm?

drachm has 1 syllable: drachm.

What is another word for drachm?

Close synonyms include dram, drachma, fluidram, fluid dram, fluid drachm. 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 drachm a common word?

drachm 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.