luck

Other forms of luck

plural

lucks·

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 luck

What does luck mean?

luck means "your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in luck?

luck has 1 syllable: luck. In IPA it is /ˈlʌk/.

What is another word for luck?

Close synonyms include fortune, destiny, fate, lot, circumstances. 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 luck a common word?

luck is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 luck?

1 word rhymes with luck. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.