curlicue

Other forms of curlicue

plural

curlicues·

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 curlicue

What does curlicue mean?

curlicue means "a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in curlicue?

curlicue has 3 syllables: cur-lic-ue. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /ˈkɝˌlɪkju/.

What is another word for curlicue?

Close synonyms include coil, whorl, roll, curl, ringlet. 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 curlicue a common word?

curlicue 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.