fancywork

Other forms of fancywork

plural

fancyworks·

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 fancywork

What does fancywork mean?

fancywork means "decorative needlework".

How many syllables are in fancywork?

fancywork has 3 syllables: fan-cy-work. The stress falls on "fan".

What is another word for fancywork?

Close synonyms include embroidery. 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 fancywork a common word?

fancywork 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.