smidgen

Other forms of smidgen

plural

smidgens·

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 smidgen

What does smidgen mean?

smidgen means "a tiny or scarcely detectable amount".

How many syllables are in smidgen?

smidgen has 2 syllables: smid-gen. The stress falls on "smid". In IPA it is /ˈsmɪdʒən/.

What is another word for smidgen?

Close synonyms include shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle. 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 smidgen a common word?

smidgen 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.