ferocity

Other forms of ferocity

plural

ferocities·

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 ferocity

What does ferocity mean?

ferocity means "the property of being wild or turbulent".

How many syllables are in ferocity?

ferocity has 4 syllables: fe-ro-ci-ty. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /fɚˈɑsəti/.

What is another word for ferocity?

Close synonyms include fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence. 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 ferocity a common word?

ferocity 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.

What rhymes with ferocity?

3 words rhyme with ferocity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.