drumstick

Other forms of drumstick

plural

drumsticks·

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 drumstick

What does drumstick mean?

drumstick means "the lower joint of the leg of a fowl". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drumstick?

drumstick has 2 syllables: drum-stick. The stress falls on "drum". In IPA it is /ˈdɹʌmstɪk/.

Is drumstick a common word?

drumstick is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.