tympanic

1. 1.

   resembling a drum
2. 2.

   associated with the eardrum

Questions about tympanic

What does tympanic mean?

tympanic means "resembling a drum". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tympanic?

tympanic has 3 syllables: tym-pan-ic. The stress falls on "pan". In IPA it is /tɪmˈpænɪk/.

Is tympanic a common word?

tympanic 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.

What rhymes with tympanic?

1 word rhymes with tympanic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.