edict
/ˈiː.dɪkt/noun
edict is spelled E-D-I-C-T: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, edict means “A proclamation of law or other authoritative command” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of edict is edicts.
How many letters and syllables are in edict?
| Letters | 5: E-D-I-C-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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 edict?
Edict appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th 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 edict?
- /ˈiː.dɪkt/
Edict has 2 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-edict.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with edict?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as edict.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cited.
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 edict
- edicts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does edict mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Edict in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense proclamation of law:
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 edict come from?
From Middle English edycte, borrowed from Latin edictum; earlier form edit, from Old French edit, from the same Latin word.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).