brownie

Other forms of brownie

plural

brownies·

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 brownie

What does brownie mean?

brownie means "a junior Girl Scout". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in brownie?

brownie has 2 syllables: brow-nie. The stress falls on "brow". In IPA it is /ˈbɹaʊni/.

What is another word for brownie?

Close synonyms include elf, hob, gremlin, pixie, pixy. 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 brownie a common word?

brownie 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.