tammuz

Other forms of tammuz

plural

tammuzes·

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 tammuz

What does tammuz mean?

tammuz means "the tenth month of the civil year; the fourth month of the ecclesiastic year (in June and July)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tammuz?

tammuz has 2 syllables: tam-muz. The stress falls on "tam".

What is another word for tammuz?

Close synonyms include Thammuz, Dumuzi. 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 tammuz a common word?

tammuz 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.