simulacrum

Other forms of simulacrum

plural

simulacra

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 simulacrum

What does simulacrum mean?

simulacrum means "an insubstantial or vague semblance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in simulacrum?

simulacrum has 4 syllables: si-mu-la-crum. The stress falls on "mu".

What is another word for simulacrum?

Close synonyms include effigy, image. 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 simulacrum a common word?

simulacrum 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.