brink

Other forms of brink

plural

brinks·

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 brink

What does brink mean?

brink means "a region marking a boundary". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brink?

brink has 1 syllable: brink. In IPA it is /ˈbɹɪŋk/.

What is another word for brink?

Close synonyms include threshold, verge, verge. 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 brink a common word?

brink 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.