hebdomad

Other forms of hebdomad

plural

hebdomads·

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 hebdomad

What does hebdomad mean?

hebdomad means "any period of seven consecutive days".

How many syllables are in hebdomad?

hebdomad has 3 syllables: heb-do-mad. The stress falls on "heb".

What is another word for hebdomad?

Close synonyms include week. 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 hebdomad a common word?

hebdomad 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.