sabbatical

Other forms of sabbatical

plural

sabbaticals·

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 sabbatical

What does sabbatical mean?

sabbatical means "of or relating to the Sabbath". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sabbatical?

sabbatical has 4 syllables: sab-bat-i-cal. The stress falls on "bat". In IPA it is /səˈbætɪkəl/.

What is another word for sabbatical?

Close synonyms include sabbatic, sabbatical leave. 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 sabbatical a common word?

sabbatical is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.