hackney

Other forms of hackney

plural

hackneys·

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 hackney

What does hackney mean?

hackney means "a carriage for hire". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hackney?

hackney has 2 syllables: hack-ney. The stress falls on "hack". In IPA it is /ˈhækni/.

What is another word for hackney?

Close synonyms include hackney carriage, hackney coach. 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 hackney a common word?

hackney 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.