piquancy

Other forms of piquancy

plural

piquancies·

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 piquancy

What does piquancy mean?

piquancy means "a tart spicy quality". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in piquancy?

piquancy has 3 syllables: piq-uan-cy. The stress falls on "piq".

What is another word for piquancy?

Close synonyms include nip, piquance, piquantness, tang, tanginess. 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 piquancy a common word?

piquancy 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.