syntactic

1. 1.

   of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax

   “the syntactic rules of a language”

   Synonymssyntactical

Questions about syntactic

What does syntactic mean?

syntactic means "of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax".

How many syllables are in syntactic?

syntactic has 3 syllables: syn-tac-tic. The stress falls on "tac". In IPA it is /ˌsɪnˈtæktɪk/.

What is another word for syntactic?

Close synonyms include syntactical. 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 syntactic a common word?

syntactic 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.