niche

Other forms of niche

plural

niches·

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 niche

What does niche mean?

niche means "a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in niche?

niche has 1 syllable: niche. In IPA it is /ˈnɪtʃ/.

What is another word for niche?

Close synonyms include recess, recession, corner, recess, ecological niche. 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 niche a common word?

niche 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.