dick

Other forms of dick

plural

dicks·

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 dick

What does dick mean?

dick means "someone who is a detective". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dick?

dick has 1 syllable: dick. In IPA it is /ˈdɪk/.

What is another word for dick?

Close synonyms include gumshoe, hawkshaw, cock, prick, shaft. 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 dick a common word?

dick is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.