up-tick

1. 1.

   a small increase

   “the up-tick in terrorist activity”

   Broaderincrease

Questions about up-tick

What does up-tick mean?

up-tick means "a small increase".

How many syllables are in up-tick?

up-tick has 2 syllables and divides as up--tick under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is up-tick a common word?

up-tick 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.