sapphic
/ˈsæfɪk/adjective, noun
sapphic is spelled S-A-P-P-H-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is saphic: about 460 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Sapphic is an adjective meaning “Lesbian, relating to lesbianism, or (broadly) to women who are attracted (not necessarily exclusively) to…”.
How many letters and syllables are in sapphic?
| Letters | 7: S-A-P-P-H-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 9 million words; the 91,522nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, saphic, about 460 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 sapphic?
Sapphic is spelled S-A-P-P-H-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for sapphic 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 sapphic?
Sapphic appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 91,522nd 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 sapphic?
- US /ˈsæfɪk/
Sapphic has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Sapphic.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-sapphic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sapphic?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sapphic from its last stressed vowel (/æfɪk/):
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 sapphic
- sapphics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sapphic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Lesbian, relating to lesbianism, or (broadly) to women who are attracted (not necessarily exclusively) to women.
Her lyrics are deeply personal and wide reaching and she weaves in indignation at the state of American politics while simultaneously exploring her identity as a black sapphic [pansexual] woman.
adjective
- 1
Relating to the Greek poetess Sappho from Lesbos or her poetry.
- 2
Of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five metrical feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.
- 3
Alternative letter-case form of sapphic.
noun
- 1
A Sapphic verse.
- 2
A person who is sapphic.
Are you a fan of hate-to-love? Roommates? Royalty romances? Geology puns? Sapphics? Her Royal Highness has all of this and more. After Millie discovers her best friend turned maybe girlfriend kissing someone else, she decides to flee […]
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of Sapphic.
April 29: Thao & The Get Down Stay Down host local rock sapphics Kera & the Lesbians.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sapphic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 sapphic come from?
From Sapphic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).