speakeasy

1. 1.

   (during prohibition) an illegal barroom

   Broaderbarroom

Other forms of speakeasy

plural

speakeasies·

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 speakeasy

What does speakeasy mean?

speakeasy means "(during prohibition) an illegal barroom".

How many syllables are in speakeasy?

speakeasy has 5 syllables: spe-a-ke-a-sy. The stress falls on "ke".

Is speakeasy a common word?

speakeasy 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.