parheliacal

1. 1.

   relating to or resembling a parhelion

   Synonymsparhelic

Questions about parheliacal

What does parheliacal mean?

parheliacal means "relating to or resembling a parhelion".

How many syllables are in parheliacal?

parheliacal has 5 syllables and divides as par-he-li-a-cal 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 parheliacal?

Close synonyms include parhelic. 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 parheliacal a common word?

parheliacal 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.