pricker

Other forms of pricker

plural

prickers·

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 pricker

What does pricker mean?

pricker means "a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pricker?

pricker has 2 syllables and divides as pric-ker 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 pricker?

Close synonyms include spine, thorn, prickle, sticker, spikelet. 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 pricker a common word?

pricker 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.