rhythmic
/ˈɹɪð.mɪk/adjective
rhythmic is spelled R-H-Y-T-H-M-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is rhytmic: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 26 of all searches for the word. Rhythmic is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to rhythm”.
How many letters and syllables are in rhythmic?
| Letters | 8: R-H-Y-T-H-M-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.5 times per million words; the 17,342nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, rhytmic, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell rhythmic?
Rhythmic is spelled R-H-Y-T-H-M-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 26 of the searches for rhythmic 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 rhythmic?
Rhythmic appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd 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 rhythmic?
- /ˈɹɪð.mɪk/
- /ˈɹɪð.mək/
Rhythmic 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-rhythmic.ogg, En-au-rhythmic.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of rhythmic
- more rhythmic comparative
- most rhythmic superlative
- rythmic
- rhythmick
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does rhythmic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to rhythm.
- 2
Characterized by rhythm.
- 3
Written in verse, especially rhyming verse.
- 4
With regular, repetitive motion or sound.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Rhythmic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | rhythmisch |
| Portuguese | rítmico |
| Spanish | rítmico , acompasado, cadencioso |
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 rhythmic come from?
From Ancient Greek ῥυθμικός (rhuthmikós), from ῥυθμός (rhuthmós, “measured flow or movement, symmetry, rhythm”) + -ικός (-ikós, suffix forming adjectives), equivalent to rhythm + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).