critic

Other forms of critic

plural

critics·

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 critic

What does critic mean?

critic means "a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in critic?

critic has 2 syllables: crit-ic. The stress falls on "crit". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɪtɪk/.

Is critic a common word?

critic 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.