long suit

Questions about long suit

What does long suit mean?

long suit means "in a hand, the suit having the most cards". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for long suit?

Close synonyms include forte, strong suit, metier, specialty, speciality. 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 long suit a common word?

long suit 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.