smidgeon

Other forms of smidgeon

plural

smidgeons·

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 smidgeon

What does smidgeon mean?

smidgeon means "a tiny or scarcely detectable amount".

How many syllables are in smidgeon?

smidgeon has 3 syllables: smid-ge-on. The stress falls on "smid".

What is another word for smidgeon?

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 smidgeon a common word?

smidgeon 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.