medic

Other forms of medic

plural

medics·

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 medic

What does medic mean?

medic means "any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in medic?

medic has 2 syllables: med-ic. The stress falls on "med". In IPA it is /ˈmɛdɪk/.

What is another word for medic?

Close synonyms include medick, trefoil, medical officer. 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 medic a common word?

medic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 medic?

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