lycee

Other forms of lycee

plural

lycees·

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 lycee

What does lycee mean?

lycee means "a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12".

How many syllables are in lycee?

lycee has 2 syllables and divides as ly-cee under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for lycee?

Close synonyms include secondary school, lyceum, Gymnasium, middle school. 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 lycee a common word?

lycee 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.