gingersnap

Questions about gingersnap

What does gingersnap mean?

gingersnap means "a crisp round cookie flavored with ginger".

How many syllables are in gingersnap?

gingersnap has 3 syllables and divides as gin-ger-snap 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 gingersnap?

Close synonyms include ginger snap, snap, ginger nut. 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 gingersnap a common word?

gingersnap 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.