quackery

Questions about quackery

What does quackery mean?

quackery means "medical practice and advice based on observation and experience in ignorance of scientific findings". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quackery?

quackery has 3 syllables: quac-ke-ry. The stress falls on "quac". In IPA it is /ˈkwækɚi/.

What is another word for quackery?

Close synonyms include empiricism, charlatanism. 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 quackery a common word?

quackery 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.