piquant

Other forms of piquant

comparative

piquanter·

superlative

piquantest·

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 piquant

What does piquant mean?

piquant means "having an agreeably pungent taste". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in piquant?

piquant has 2 syllables: piq-uant. The stress falls on "piq". In IPA it is /ˈpikənt/.

What is another word for piquant?

Close synonyms include savory, savoury, zesty, salty, engaging. 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 piquant a common word?

piquant 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.