octosyllabic

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   having or characterized by or consisting of eight syllables

   Similarsyllabic

Questions about octosyllabic

What does octosyllabic mean?

octosyllabic means "having or characterized by or consisting of eight syllables".

How many syllables are in octosyllabic?

octosyllabic has 5 syllables: oc-to-syl-la-bic. The stress falls on "la".

Is octosyllabic a common word?

octosyllabic 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.