miscellany

1. 1.

   a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

   “a great assortment of cars was on display”

   “he had a variety of disorders”

   “a veritable smorgasbord of religions”

   Synonymsassortmentmixturemixed bagmiscellaneavarietysalmagundismorgasbordpotpourrimotley

   Broadercollection

   Narrowergrab bagwitches' brewrangeselectionodds and endsalphabet soupsampler
2. 2.

   an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.

   Synonymsflorilegiumgarland

   Broaderanthology

Other forms of miscellany

plural

miscellanies·

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 miscellany

What does miscellany mean?

miscellany means "a collection containing a variety of sorts of things". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in miscellany?

miscellany has 4 syllables: mis-cel-la-ny. The stress falls on "mis". In IPA it is /ˈmɪsəˌleɪni/.

What is another word for miscellany?

Close synonyms include assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellanea, variety. 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 miscellany a common word?

miscellany 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.

What rhymes with miscellany?

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