crevice

Other forms of crevice

plural

crevices·

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 crevice

What does crevice mean?

crevice means "a long narrow depression in a surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crevice?

crevice has 2 syllables: crev-ice. The stress falls on "crev". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɛvəs/.

What is another word for crevice?

Close synonyms include cranny, crack, fissure, chap, crack. 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 crevice a common word?

crevice is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.