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anthropomorphic

/ˌænθɹəpəˈmɔɹfɪk/adjective, noun

anthropomorphic is spelled A-N-T-H-R-O-P-O-M-O-R-P-H-I-C: 15 letters and 5 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,267th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, anthropomorphic means “Having the form of a human” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in anthropomorphic?

Letters15: A-N-T-H-R-O-P-O-M-O-R-P-H-I-C
Syllables5 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 40,267th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is anthropomorphic?

Anthropomorphic appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,267th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce anthropomorphic?

  • UK /ˌænθɹəʊpəʊˈmɔːfɪk/
  • US /ˌænθɹəpəˈmɔɹfɪk/

Anthropomorphic has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-anthropomorphic.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with anthropomorphic?

7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as anthropomorphic from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹfɪk/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of anthropomorphic

  • anthropomorphics plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does anthropomorphic mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Having the form of a human.

  2. 2

    Having attributes or characteristics of a human being.

noun

  1. 1

    datedslangAn anthropomorphized animal and creature.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Anthropomorphic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchanthropomorphe (having the form of a person)
Germananthropomorph (having the form of a person), vermenschlicht (given human attributes)
Portugueseantropomórfico (having the form of a person)
Spanishantropomorfo (having the form of a person)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does anthropomorphic come from?

From anthropo- + -morphic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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