pasquinade

Other forms of pasquinade

plural

pasquinades·

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 pasquinade

What does pasquinade mean?

pasquinade means "a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way".

How many syllables are in pasquinade?

pasquinade has 3 syllables and divides as pa-squi-nade 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.

What is another word for pasquinade?

Close synonyms include parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, send-up. 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 pasquinade a common word?

pasquinade is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.