jape

Other forms of jape

plural

japes·

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 jape

What does jape mean?

jape means "a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter".

How many syllables are in jape?

jape has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. 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 jape?

Close synonyms include joke, gag, laugh, jest. 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 jape a common word?

jape 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.