mizzen

Other forms of mizzen

plural

mizzens·

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 mizzen

What does mizzen mean?

mizzen 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 mizzen?

mizzen has 2 syllables: miz-zen. The stress falls on "miz".

What is another word for mizzen?

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

mizzen 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.