trickery

Other forms of trickery

plural

trickeries·

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 trickery

What does trickery mean?

trickery means "verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trickery?

trickery has 3 syllables: tric-ke-ry. The stress falls on "tric". In IPA it is /ˈtɹɪkɚi/.

What is another word for trickery?

Close synonyms include hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery. 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 trickery a common word?

trickery 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.