quirk

Other forms of quirk

plural

quirks·

past tense

quirked·

present participle

quirking·

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 quirk

What does quirk mean?

quirk means "a strange attitude or habit". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quirk?

quirk has 1 syllable: quirk. In IPA it is /ˈkwɝk/.

What is another word for quirk?

Close synonyms include oddity, queerness, quirkiness, crotchet. 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 quirk a common word?

quirk 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.

What rhymes with quirk?

1 word rhymes with quirk. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.