troika

Other forms of troika

plural

troikas·

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 troika

What does troika mean?

troika means "a Russian carriage pulled by three horses abreast". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in troika?

troika has 2 syllables: troi-ka. The stress falls on "troi". In IPA it is /ˈtɹɔɪkə/.

What is another word for troika?

Close synonyms include three, 3, III, trio, threesome. 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 troika a common word?

troika 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.