shylock

Other forms of shylock

plural

shylocks·

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 shylock

What does shylock mean?

shylock means "someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shylock?

shylock has 2 syllables: shy-lock. The stress falls on "shy". In IPA it is /ˈʃaɪˌlɑk/.

What is another word for shylock?

Close synonyms include usurer, loan shark, moneylender. 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 shylock a common word?

shylock 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 shylock?

16 words rhyme with shylock. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.