tanginess

Questions about tanginess

What does tanginess mean?

tanginess means "a tart spicy quality".

How many syllables are in tanginess?

tanginess has 3 syllables and divides as tan-gi-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tanginess?

Close synonyms include nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang. 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 tanginess a common word?

tanginess 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.