rascality

Other forms of rascality

plural

rascalities·

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 rascality

What does rascality mean?

rascality means "the trait of indulging in disreputable pranks". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rascality?

rascality has 4 syllables: ra-sca-li-ty. The stress falls on "sca".

What is another word for rascality?

Close synonyms include prankishness, roguishness, shiftiness, slipperiness, trickiness. 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 rascality a common word?

rascality 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.