paraphrastic

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   altered by paraphrasing

   Similaraltered

Questions about paraphrastic

What does paraphrastic mean?

paraphrastic means "altered by paraphrasing".

How many syllables are in paraphrastic?

paraphrastic has 4 syllables and divides as pa-raph-ra-stic 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.

Is paraphrastic a common word?

paraphrastic 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.