mishegaas

What does mishegaas mean?

mishegaas means "(Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity".

How many syllables are in mishegaas?

mishegaas has 3 syllables and divides as mi-she-gaas under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for mishegaas?

Close synonyms include meshugaas, mishegoss. 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 mishegaas a common word?

mishegaas 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mishegaas come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.