hanukkah

Other forms of hanukkah

plural

hanukkahs·

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 hanukkah

What does hanukkah mean?

hanukkah means "(Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC".

How many syllables are in hanukkah?

hanukkah has 3 syllables: ha-nuk-kah. The stress falls on "ha". In IPA it is /ˈhɑnəkə/.

What is another word for hanukkah?

Close synonyms include Hanukah, Hannukah, Chanukah, Chanukkah, Channukah. 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 hanukkah a common word?

hanukkah is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 hanukkah?

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