preakness

1. 1.

   an annual race for three-year-old horses; held at Pimlico in Baltimore, Maryland

   Broaderthoroughbred race

Other forms of preakness

plural

preaknesses·

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 preakness

What does preakness mean?

preakness means "an annual race for three-year-old horses; held at Pimlico in Baltimore, Maryland".

How many syllables are in preakness?

preakness has 2 syllables: preak-ness. The stress falls on "preak". In IPA it is /ˈpɹiknəs/.

Is preakness a common word?

preakness 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.