tricorn

1. 1.

   cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points

   Synonymstricorne

   Broadercocked hat

Other forms of tricorn

plural

tricorns·

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 tricorn

What does tricorn mean?

tricorn means "cocked hat with the brim turned up to form three points".

How many syllables are in tricorn?

tricorn has 2 syllables: tri-corn. The stress falls on "tri".

What is another word for tricorn?

Close synonyms include tricorne. 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 tricorn a common word?

tricorn 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.