mizen

Other forms of mizen

plural

mizens·

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 mizen

What does mizen mean?

mizen means "third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mizen?

mizen has 2 syllables: mi-zen. The stress falls on "mi". In IPA it is /ˈmaɪzən/.

What is another word for mizen?

Close synonyms include mizzenmast, mizenmast, mizzen, mizzen. 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 mizen a common word?

mizen is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.