lucky

Other forms of lucky

comparative or superlative

luckier

comparative or superlative

luckiest

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 lucky

What does lucky mean?

lucky means "occurring by chance". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lucky?

lucky has 2 syllables: luc-ky. The stress falls on "luc". In IPA it is /ˈlʌki/.

What is another word for lucky?

Close synonyms include golden, favorable, favourable, prosperous. 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.

What is the opposite of lucky?

The recorded antonyms are unlucky.

Is lucky a common word?

lucky 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 lucky?

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