manicure

Other forms of manicure

plural

manicures·

past tense

manicured·

present participle

manicuring·

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 manicure

What does manicure mean?

manicure means "trim carefully and neatly". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in manicure?

manicure has 3 syllables: man-i-cure. The stress falls on "man". In IPA it is /ˈmænɪkjɚ/.

Is manicure a common word?

manicure is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.