liquor

Other forms of liquor

plural

liquors·

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 liquor

What does liquor mean?

liquor means "an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in liquor?

liquor has 2 syllables: liq-uor. The stress falls on "liq". In IPA it is /ˈlɪkɚ/.

What is another word for liquor?

Close synonyms include spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn. 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 liquor a common word?

liquor is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.