baksheesh

Other forms of baksheesh

plural

baksheeshes·

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 baksheesh

What does baksheesh mean?

baksheesh means "a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter)".

How many syllables are in baksheesh?

baksheesh has 2 syllables: bak-sheesh. The stress falls on "bak".

What is another word for baksheesh?

Close synonyms include gratuity, tip, pourboire, bakshish, bakshis. 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 baksheesh a common word?

baksheesh 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.