pandemic
pan·dem·ic/pænˈdɛmɪk/adjective, noun
pandemic is spelled P-A-N-D-E-M-I-C, 3 syllables: pan·dem·ic. The wrong spelling people search most is pandamic: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 86 of all searches for the word. Pandemic is an adjective meaning “Of a disease: epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population…”.
How many letters and syllables are in pandemic?
| Letters | 8: P-A-N-D-E-M-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: pan·dem·ic |
| In writing | 4.8 times per million words; the 11,541st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, pandamic, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 do you spell pandemic?
Pandemic is spelled P-A-N-D-E-M-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 86 of the searches for pandemic in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is pandemic?
Pandemic appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st 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 pandemic?
- UK /pænˈdɛmɪk/
- US /pænˈdɛmɪk/
- US [pɛənˈdɛmɪk]
Pandemic has 3 syllables, split pan·dem·ic in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pandemic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with pandemic?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as pandemic from its last stressed vowel (/ɛmɪk/):
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 pandemic
- more pandemic comparative
- most pandemic superlative
- pandemics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pandemic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of a disease: epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population; also, of or pertaining to a disease of this nature.
The chaotic breakdown of public health as World War I dragged on is widely recognized as exacerbating the disease burden of the pandemic outbreak of influenza in 1918.
- 2
derogatoryGeneral, widespread.
- 3
rareAlternative letter-case form of Pandemic (“of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as Aphrodite Urania: earthly, physical, sensual.”).
noun
- 1
A pandemic disease; a disease that affects a wide geographical area and a large proportion of the population.
- 2
The COVID-19 pandemic.
adjective
- 1
Of Aphrodite Pandemos, the earthly aspect of the Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite and her Roman counterpart Venus, as contrasted with the heavenly aspect known as Aphrodite Urania: earthly, physical, sensual.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pandemic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pandémique , pandémie |
| German | pandemisch , Pandemie |
| Portuguese | pandêmico, pandémico , pandemia |
| Spanish | pandémico , pandemia |
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 pandemic come from?
From Ancient Greek πάνδημος (pándēmos, “of or belonging to all the people, public”) + English -ic (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’). πάνδημος is derived from παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all, every’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, shepherd”)) + δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people; free citizens, sovereign people”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- (“to divide, share”)). Compare Late Latin pandēmus (“affecting all the people, general, public”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).