biscuit

Other forms of biscuit

plural

biscuits·

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 biscuit

What does biscuit mean?

biscuit means "small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in biscuit?

biscuit has 2 syllables: bis-cuit. The stress falls on "bis". In IPA it is /ˈbɪskət/.

What is another word for biscuit?

Close synonyms include cookie, cooky. 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 biscuit a common word?

biscuit is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.