ezechiel

Other forms of ezechiel

plural

ezechiels·

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 ezechiel

What does ezechiel mean?

ezechiel means "a Hebrew prophet of the 6th century BC who was exiled to Babylon in 587 BC". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ezechiel?

ezechiel has 3 syllables: e-ze-chiel. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for ezechiel?

Close synonyms include Ezekiel, Ezekiel, Book of Ezekiel. 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 ezechiel a common word?

ezechiel 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.