ebonics

Other forms of ebonics

plural

ebonicses·

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 ebonics

What does ebonics mean?

ebonics means "a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States".

How many syllables are in ebonics?

ebonics has 3 syllables: e-bo-nics. The stress falls on "bo". In IPA it is /iˈbɔnɪks/.

What is another word for ebonics?

Close synonyms include African American Vernacular English, AAVE, African American English, Black English, Black English Vernacular. 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 ebonics a common word?

ebonics 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.