nightcap

Other forms of nightcap

plural

nightcaps·

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 nightcap

What does nightcap mean?

nightcap means "an alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nightcap?

nightcap has 2 syllables and divides as night-cap under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is nightcap a common word?

nightcap 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.