gimcrackery

Questions about gimcrackery

What does gimcrackery mean?

gimcrackery means "ornamental objects of no great value".

How many syllables are in gimcrackery?

gimcrackery has 4 syllables and divides as gim-crac-ke-ry 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.

What is another word for gimcrackery?

Close synonyms include folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrack, nonsense. 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 gimcrackery a common word?

gimcrackery 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.