tallith

Questions about tallith

What does tallith mean?

tallith means "(Judaism) a shawl with a ritually knotted fringe at each corner; worn by Jews at morning prayer".

How many syllables are in tallith?

tallith has 2 syllables and divides as tal-lith 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.

What is another word for tallith?

Close synonyms include prayer shawl, tallis. 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 tallith a common word?

tallith 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.