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— English words —

• pyrrhic adj. (Prosody) Of or characterized by pyrrhics (metrical feet with two short syllables).
• pyrrhic adj. Relating to Pyrrhus, a Macedonian king, or some of his costly victories he had while fighting Rome.
• pyrrhic adj. Alternative letter-case form of Pyrrhic (“achieved at too great a cost”).
• pyrrhic n. An Ancient Greek war dance.
• pyrrhic n. (Prosody) A metric foot with two short or unaccented syllables.
• Pyrrhic adj. (Not comparable) Of or relating to Pyrrhus (319/318–272 BC), Greek general and statesman.
• Pyrrhic adj. Achieved at too great a cost or detriment to have been worthwhile (as a victory, accomplishment, etc).

— English words, defined in French —

• pyrrhic adj. (Poésie) (Prosodie) Relatif aux ou caractérisé par les pyrrhiques.
• pyrrhic n. (Danse) Pyrrhique.
• pyrrhic n. (Poésie) (Prosodie) Pyrrhique.
• Pyrrhic adj. Couronné de succès mais excessivement coûteux sur tel ou tel plan, tel une victoire à la Pyrrhus.

54 English words from 7 English definitions

accomplishment achieved Alternative Ancient Ancient␣Greek and been case characterized comparable cost costly dance detriment etc feet fighting foot form general great Greek had have his king letter letter␣case Macedonian metric metrical metrical␣feet metric␣foot Not Prosody Pyrrhic pyrrhics Pyrrhus relating Rome short some statesman syllables too two unaccented victories victory war war␣dance while with worthwhile

7 English words from 4 foreign definitions

à␣la aux les par plan Pyrrhus tel

18 foreign words from 4 foreign definitions

caractérisé Couronné Couronné␣de␣succès coûteux Danse excessivement mais Poésie Prosodie Pyrrhique pyrrhiques Relatif succès sur tel␣ou␣tel une victoire victoire␣à␣la␣Pyrrhus

7 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

pyrrhics pyrrhical pyrrhicist pyrrhichius pyrrhicists Pyrrhic␣victory Pyrrhic␣victories

4 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

hic Pyr pyr- pyrrh-

2 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

CIH IHR

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

pyhrric Pyhrric

2 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

chirrupy pyrrhics

2 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

chirpy phyric

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

myrrhic

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