sorcery

Other forms of sorcery

plural

sorceries·

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 sorcery

What does sorcery mean?

sorcery means "the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world".

How many syllables are in sorcery?

sorcery has 3 syllables: sor-ce-ry. The stress falls on "sor". In IPA it is /ˈsɔɹsɚi/.

What is another word for sorcery?

Close synonyms include black magic, black art, necromancy. 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 sorcery a common word?

sorcery 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.