nicker

Other forms of nicker

plural

nickers·

past tense

nickerred·

present participle

nickerring·

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 nicker

What does nicker mean?

nicker means "the characteristic sounds made by a horse". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nicker?

nicker has 2 syllables: nic-ker. The stress falls on "nic".

What is another word for nicker?

Close synonyms include neigh, whicker, whinny, neigh, whicker. 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 nicker a common word?

nicker 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.