symplectic
/sɪmˈplɛktɪk/adjective, noun
symplectic is spelled S-Y-M-P-L-E-C-T-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is simplectic: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Symplectic is an adjective meaning “Placed in or among, as if woven together”.
How many letters and syllables are in symplectic?
| Letters | 10: S-Y-M-P-L-E-C-T-I-C |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 10 million words; the 93,703rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, simplectic, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell symplectic?
Symplectic is spelled S-Y-M-P-L-E-C-T-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for symplectic 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 symplectic?
Symplectic appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 93,703rd 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 symplectic?
- /sɪmˈplɛktɪk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-symplectic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of symplectic
- symplectics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does symplectic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Placed in or among, as if woven together.
- 2
Whose characteristic abelian subgroups are cyclic.
- 3
That is alternating and nondegenerate.
- 4
That is equipped with an alternating nondegenerate bilinear form.
- 5
Of or pertaining to (the geometry of) a differentiable manifold equipped with a closed nondegenerate bilinear form.
- 6
That moves in the same direction as a system of synchronized waves.
- 7
Of or pertaining to a symplectite; symplectitic.
noun
- 1
A symplectic bilinear form, manifold, geometry, etc.
- 2
A bone in the teleostean fishes that forms the lower ossification of the suspensorium, and which articulates below with the quadrate bone by which it is firmly held.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does symplectic come from?
A calque of complex, coined by Hermann Weyl in his 1939 book The Classical Groups: Their Invariants and Representations. From Ancient Greek συμπλεκτικός (sumplektikós), from συμ (sum) (variant of σύν (sún)), + πλεκτικός (plektikós) (from πλέκω (plékō)); modelled on complex (from Latin complexus (“braided together”), from com- (“together”) + plectere (“to weave, braid”)). The symplectic group has previously been called the line complex group.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).