bacchic
"bacchic" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bacchic” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or relating to Bacchus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bacchic · bacchic · English
bacchic · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bacchic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bacchic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bacchic is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for bacchic in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Bacchicus. The correct English form is bacchic, spelled B-A-C-C-H-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or relating to Bacchus.
- 2By extension, drunken.
- 3Relating to a bacchius.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bacchic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: Dionysiac, Dionysian
Near-synonyms: bacchanalian, bacchian; dionysiac, dionysian
Etymology
From Latin Bacchicus.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.