rickety

Questions about rickety

What does rickety mean?

rickety means "inclined to shake as from weakness or defect". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rickety?

rickety has 3 syllables: ric-ke-ty. The stress falls on "ric". In IPA it is /ˈɹɪkəti/.

What is another word for rickety?

Close synonyms include shaky, wobbly, wonky, rachitic, decrepit. 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 rickety a common word?

rickety 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.