wycliffe

Other forms of wycliffe

plural

wycliffes·

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 wycliffe

What does wycliffe mean?

wycliffe means "English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384)".

How many syllables are in wycliffe?

wycliffe has 2 syllables: wy-cliffe. The stress falls on "wy".

What is another word for wycliffe?

Close synonyms include John Wycliffe, Wickliffe, John Wickliffe, Wyclif, John Wyclif. 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 wycliffe a common word?

wycliffe 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.