bailiwick

Other forms of bailiwick

plural

bailiwicks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bailiwick

What does bailiwick mean?

bailiwick means "the area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bailiwick?

bailiwick has 3 syllables: bai-li-wick. The stress falls on "bai". In IPA it is /ˈbeɪlɪˌwɪk/.

What is another word for bailiwick?

Close synonyms include discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bailiwick a common word?

bailiwick is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bailiwick?

1 word rhymes with bailiwick. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.