benedick
noun
benedick is a noun meaning “A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-E-N-E-D-I-C-K and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of benedick is benedicks.
What does benedick mean?
noun
- 1
A recently married man, especially one who has long held out against marriage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce benedick?
Benedick has 3 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).
Forms of benedick
- benedicks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is benedick?
Benedick appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 86,301st 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).
Where does benedick come from?
From the character in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).