trickiness

Questions about trickiness

What does trickiness mean?

trickiness means "the quality of being a slippery rascal". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trickiness?

trickiness has 3 syllables: tric-ki-ness. The stress falls on "tric".

What is another word for trickiness?

Close synonyms include rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness. 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 trickiness a common word?

trickiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.