knickknack

Other forms of knickknack

plural

knickknacks·

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 knickknack

What does knickknack mean?

knickknack means "a small inexpensive mass-produced article". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in knickknack?

knickknack has 2 syllables: knickk-nack. The stress falls on "knickk". In IPA it is /ˈnɪkˌnæk/.

What is another word for knickknack?

Close synonyms include novelty, bric-a-brac, nicknack, knickknackery, whatnot. 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 knickknack a common word?

knickknack 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.

What rhymes with knickknack?

2 words rhyme with knickknack. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.