firkin

Questions about firkin

What does firkin mean?

firkin means "a British unit of capacity equal to 9 imperial gallons". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in firkin?

firkin has 2 syllables and divides as fir-kin under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is firkin a common word?

firkin 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.