thicket

Other forms of thicket

plural

thickets·

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 thicket

What does thicket mean?

thicket means "a dense growth of bushes".

How many syllables are in thicket?

thicket has 2 syllables: thic-ket. The stress falls on "thic". In IPA it is /ˈθɪkɪt/.

What is another word for thicket?

Close synonyms include brush, brushwood, coppice, copse. 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 thicket a common word?

thicket 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.