dickens

Other forms of dickens

plural

dickenses·

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 dickens

What does dickens mean?

dickens means "a word used in exclamations of confusion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dickens?

dickens has 2 syllables: dic-kens. The stress falls on "dic". In IPA it is /ˈdɪkənz/.

What is another word for dickens?

Close synonyms include devil, deuce, Charles Dickens, Charles John Huffam Dickens. 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 dickens a common word?

dickens 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.