thievery

Other forms of thievery

plural

thieveries·

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 thievery

What does thievery mean?

thievery means "the act of taking something from someone unlawfully".

How many syllables are in thievery?

thievery has 3 syllables: thie-ve-ry. The stress falls on "thie". In IPA it is /ˈθivɚi/.

What is another word for thievery?

Close synonyms include larceny, theft, thieving, stealing. 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 thievery a common word?

thievery 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.