epistle

Other forms of epistle

plural

epistles·

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 epistle

What does epistle mean?

epistle means "a specially long, formal letter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in epistle?

epistle has 3 syllables: e-pis-tle. The stress falls on "pis". In IPA it is /ɪˈpɪsəl/.

Is epistle a common word?

epistle 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.