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Periclean

/ˌpɛɹɪˈkliːən/adjective

Periclean is spelled P-E-R-I-C-L-E-A-N: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Periclean means “Of or relating to Pericles, an Ancient Greek politician, or to the golden age of art and literature in Athens” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Periclean?

Letters9: P-E-R-I-C-L-E-A-N
In writingabout once in every 71 million words; the 265,644th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is Periclean?

Periclean appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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 Periclean?

  • /ˌpɛɹɪˈkliːən/

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

What does Periclean mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to Pericles, an Ancient Greek politician, or to the golden age of art and literature in Athens.

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

Periclean in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Of or relating to Ancient Greek politician Pericles:

LanguageWords
Frenchpéricléen

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.

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