malt whisky

Questions about malt whisky

What does malt whisky mean?

malt whisky means "whiskey distilled in Scotland; especially whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still".

What is another word for malt whisky?

Close synonyms include Scotch, Scotch whiskey, Scotch whisky, malt whiskey, Scotch malt whiskey. 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 malt whisky a common word?

malt whisky 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.