snooker

Other forms of snooker

plural

snookers·

past tense

snookerred·

present participle

snookerring·

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 snooker

What does snooker mean?

snooker means "fool or dupe". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in snooker?

snooker has 2 syllables: snook-er. The stress falls on "snook". In IPA it is /ˈsnʊkɚ/.

Is snooker a common word?

snooker is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.