welkin

Other forms of welkin

plural

welkins·

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 welkin

What does welkin mean?

welkin means "the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected".

How many syllables are in welkin?

welkin has 2 syllables and divides as wel-kin 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 welkin?

Close synonyms include celestial sphere, sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens. 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 welkin a common word?

welkin 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.