penchant

1. 1.

   a strong liking

   “my own preference is for good literature”

   “the Irish have a penchant for blarney”

   Synonymspreferencepredilectiontaste

   Broaderliking

   Narroweracquired tasteweakness

Other forms of penchant

plural

penchants·

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 penchant

What does penchant mean?

penchant means "a strong liking".

How many syllables are in penchant?

penchant has 2 syllables: pen-chant. The stress falls on "pen". In IPA it is /ˈpɛntʃənt/.

What is another word for penchant?

Close synonyms include preference, predilection, taste. 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 penchant a common word?

penchant 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.