prismatic
/pɹɪzˈmætɪk/adjective
prismatic is spelled P-R-I-S-M-A-T-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is primastic: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 189 of all searches for the word. Prismatic is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to a prism; having the form of a prism; containing one or more prisms”.
How many letters and syllables are in prismatic?
| Letters | 9: P-R-I-S-M-A-T-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 39,336th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, primastic, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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 do you spell prismatic?
Prismatic is spelled P-R-I-S-M-A-T-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 190 of the searches for prismatic 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 prismatic?
Prismatic appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th 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 prismatic?
- US /pɹɪzˈmætɪk/
Prismatic 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-prismatic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with prismatic?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as prismatic from its last stressed vowel (/ætɪk/):
- democratic
- automatic
- diplomatic
- static
- problematic
- systematic
- traumatic
- bureaucratic
- erratic
- pancreatic
- aromatic
- enigmatic
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 prismatic
- more prismatic comparative
- most prismatic superlative
- prismatick
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does prismatic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to a prism; having the form of a prism; containing one or more prisms.
- 2
Separated or distributed by, or as if by, a transparent prism; formed by a prism; varied or brilliant in color.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Prismatic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to a prism:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | prismatique |
| German | prismatisch, prismenförmig, prismenartig |
| Portuguese | prismático |
| Spanish | prismático |
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 prismatic come from?
Borrowed from French prismatique. Equivalent to prism + -atic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).