piquantly

1. 1.

   with strong spices; in a spicy manner

   “the soup was spicily flavored”

   Synonymsspicily

Questions about piquantly

What does piquantly mean?

piquantly means "with strong spices; in a spicy manner".

How many syllables are in piquantly?

piquantly has 3 syllables and divides as piq-uant-ly 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 piquantly?

Close synonyms include spicily. 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 piquantly a common word?

piquantly 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.