cardsharp

Other forms of cardsharp

plural

cardsharps·

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 cardsharp

What does cardsharp mean?

cardsharp means "a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games".

How many syllables are in cardsharp?

cardsharp has 2 syllables: card-sharp. The stress falls on "card".

What is another word for cardsharp?

Close synonyms include card sharp, cardsharper, card sharper, sharper, sharpie. 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 cardsharp a common word?

cardsharp 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.