hellenic

Other forms of hellenic

plural

hellenics·

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 hellenic

What does hellenic mean?

hellenic means "relating to or characteristic of the classical Greek civilization". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hellenic?

hellenic has 3 syllables: hel-len-ic. The stress falls on "len". In IPA it is /həˈlɛnɪk/.

What is another word for hellenic?

Close synonyms include Hellenistic, Hellenistical, Greek, Grecian, Greek. 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 hellenic a common word?

hellenic 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.