nutcracker

Other forms of nutcracker

plural

nutcrackers·

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 nutcracker

What does nutcracker mean?

nutcracker means "a compound lever used to crack nuts open". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nutcracker?

nutcracker has 3 syllables: nut-crac-ker. The stress falls on "nut". In IPA it is /ˈnʌtˌkɹækɚ/.

What is another word for nutcracker?

Close synonyms include nuthatch. 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 nutcracker a common word?

nutcracker 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.

What rhymes with nutcracker?

2 words rhyme with nutcracker. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.