panegyric

Other forms of panegyric

plural

panegyrics·

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 panegyric

What does panegyric mean?

panegyric means "a formal expression of praise". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in panegyric?

panegyric has 4 syllables: pa-ne-gy-ric. The stress falls on "gy".

What is another word for panegyric?

Close synonyms include encomium, eulogy, paean, pean, encomiastic. 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 panegyric a common word?

panegyric 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.