cheekiness

Other forms of cheekiness

plural

cheekinesses·

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 cheekiness

What does cheekiness mean?

cheekiness means "the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties".

How many syllables are in cheekiness?

cheekiness has 3 syllables: chee-ki-ness. The stress falls on "chee".

What is another word for cheekiness?

Close synonyms include crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence. 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 cheekiness a common word?

cheekiness 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.