mystique

1. 1.

   an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing

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Other forms of mystique

plural

mystiques·

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 mystique

What does mystique mean?

mystique means "an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing".

How many syllables are in mystique?

mystique has 2 syllables: mystiq-ue. The stress falls on "ue". In IPA it is /mɪˈstik/.

Is mystique a common word?

mystique 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.