mitsvah

Questions about mitsvah

What does mitsvah mean?

mitsvah means "(Judaism) a precept or commandment of the Jewish law". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mitsvah?

mitsvah has 2 syllables and divides as mits-vah 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 mitsvah?

Close synonyms include mitzvah, mitzvah. 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 mitsvah a common word?

mitsvah 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.