tic

1. 1.

   a local and habitual twitching especially in the face

   Broadertwitch

Other forms of tic

plural

tics·

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 tic

What does tic mean?

tic means "a local and habitual twitching especially in the face".

How many syllables are in tic?

tic has 1 syllable: tic. In IPA it is /ˈtɪk/.

Is tic a common word?

tic 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.