rabelaisian

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of Francois Rabelais or his works

   “Rabelaisian characters”

Questions about rabelaisian

What does rabelaisian mean?

rabelaisian means "of or relating to or characteristic of Francois Rabelais or his works".

How many syllables are in rabelaisian?

rabelaisian has 5 syllables and divides as ra-be-la-i-sian 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 rabelaisian a common word?

rabelaisian 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.