malachi

Other forms of malachi

plural

malachis·

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 malachi

What does malachi mean?

malachi means "a Hebrew minor prophet of the 5th century BC". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in malachi?

malachi has 3 syllables: ma-la-chi. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for malachi?

Close synonyms include Malachias, Malachias, Book of Malachi. 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 malachi a common word?

malachi is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.