vicarious

Questions about vicarious

What does vicarious mean?

vicarious means "experienced at secondhand". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vicarious?

vicarious has 4 syllables: vi-car-i-ous. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /vaɪˈkɛɹiəs/.

Is vicarious a common word?

vicarious 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.

What rhymes with vicarious?

1 word rhymes with vicarious. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.