spheric

Other forms of spheric

comparative

sphericer·

superlative

sphericest·

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 spheric

What does spheric mean?

spheric means "having the shape of a sphere or ball".

How many syllables are in spheric?

spheric has 2 syllables: sphe-ric. The stress falls on "sphe".

What is another word for spheric?

Close synonyms include ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular. 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 spheric a common word?

spheric 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.