raciness

Other forms of raciness

plural

racinesses·

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 raciness

What does raciness mean?

raciness means "a strong odor or taste property". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in raciness?

raciness has 3 syllables: ra-ci-ness. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˈɹeɪsinəs/.

What is another word for raciness?

Close synonyms include pungency, bite, sharpness, gaminess, ribaldry. 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 raciness a common word?

raciness 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.