euchre

1. 1.

   a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand

   Synonymsfive hundred

   Broadercard game

Other forms of euchre

plural

euchres·

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 euchre

What does euchre mean?

euchre means "a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand".

How many syllables are in euchre?

euchre has 2 syllables: e-uchre. The stress falls on "e". In IPA it is /ˈjukɚ/.

What is another word for euchre?

Close synonyms include five hundred. 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 euchre a common word?

euchre 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.