snicker

Other forms of snicker

plural

snickers·

past tense

snickerred·

present participle

snickerring·

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 snicker

What does snicker mean?

snicker means "a disrespectful laugh". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in snicker?

snicker has 2 syllables: snic-ker. The stress falls on "snic". In IPA it is /ˈsnɪkɚ/.

What is another word for snicker?

Close synonyms include snort, snigger, snigger. 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 snicker a common word?

snicker 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.