cricket

1. 1.

   leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together

   Broaderorthopterous insect

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   Part ofGryllidae
2. 2.

   a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs

   Broaderfield game

   Partssnickinnings

1. 1.

   play cricket

   Broaderplay

Other forms of cricket

plural

crickets·

past tense

cricketted·

present participle

cricketting·

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 cricket

What does cricket mean?

cricket means "leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cricket?

cricket has 2 syllables: cric-ket. The stress falls on "cric". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɪkət/.

Is cricket a common word?

cricket is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.