heuristic

Other forms of heuristic

plural

heuristics·

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 heuristic

What does heuristic mean?

heuristic means "a commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heuristic?

heuristic has 3 syllables: heu-ris-tic. The stress falls on "ris". In IPA it is /hjʊˈɹɪstɪk/.

What is another word for heuristic?

Close synonyms include heuristic rule, heuristic program. 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.

What is the opposite of heuristic?

The recorded antonyms are algorithmic.

Is heuristic a common word?

heuristic 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.

What rhymes with heuristic?

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