sociolinguistic

1. 1.

   of or relating to sociolinguistics

Questions about sociolinguistic

What does sociolinguistic mean?

sociolinguistic means "of or relating to sociolinguistics".

How many syllables are in sociolinguistic?

sociolinguistic has 7 syllables and divides as so-ci-o-lin-gu-i-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 sociolinguistic a common word?

sociolinguistic 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.