treachery

Other forms of treachery

plural

treacheries·

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 treachery

What does treachery mean?

treachery means "betrayal of a trust". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in treachery?

treachery has 3 syllables: treac-he-ry. The stress falls on "treac". In IPA it is /ˈtɹɛtʃɚi/.

What is another word for treachery?

Close synonyms include perfidy, perfidiousness, betrayal, treason, perfidy. 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 treachery a common word?

treachery 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.