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epic

/ˈɛp.ɪk/noun, adjective

epic is spelled E-P-I-C: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “epic vs epoch” about 260 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, epic means “An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of epic is epics.

How many letters and syllables are in epic?

Letters4: E-P-I-C
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing22 times per million words; the 3,939th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is epic?

Epic appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th 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 epic?

  • US /ˈɛp.ɪk/
  • Australia /ˈep.ɪk/

Epic 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-au-epic.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with epic

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

epic vs epoch260 G

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with epic?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as epic (/ɛpɪk/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: pice.

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 epic

  • epics plural
  • more epic comparative
  • most epic superlative

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

What does epic mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.

    The Icelandic epic took all night to recite.

  2. 2

    A series of events considered appropriate to an epic; any work of literature, film, etc. having heroic deeds and adventures as its subject matter.

    The book was an epic in four volumes.

  3. 3

    A large or extended user story.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to an epic.

    Beowulf is an epic poem.

  2. 2

    Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character.

    The epic defense was rewarded with the highest military decorations

  3. 3

    colloquialExtending beyond the usual or ordinary.

    The after-prom party was truly epic.

  4. 4

    That is an epimorphism.

noun

as EPIC
  1. 1

    Acronym of explicitly parallel instruction computing.

  2. 2

    Acronym of epitaxial integrated circuit.

adjective

as Epic
  1. 1

    datedAlternative letter-case form of epic (“relating to epic poems”).

  2. 2

    Pertaining to a dialect characteristic of epic poems, especially Epic Greek.

noun

as Epic
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of epic (“extended narrative poem”); especially a poem within a particular tradition of epics.

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

Epic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchépopée (extended narrative poem), épique (of, or relating to, an epic)
GermanEpos (extended narrative poem), episch (of, or relating to, an epic), Epopöe (events appropriate to an epic), außergewöhnlich, wahnsinnig, Wahnsinns- (extraordinary)
Portugueseépico, epopeia (extended narrative poem), extraordinário (extraordinary)
Spanishepopeya (extended narrative poem), épico (of, or relating to, an epic), epopéyico (extraordinary)

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 epic come from?

From Middle French épique, from Latin epicus, from Ancient Greek ἐπικός (epikós), from ἔπος (épos, “word, story”).

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

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