whimsey

Other forms of whimsey

plural

whimseys·

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 whimsey

What does whimsey mean?

whimsey means "an odd or fanciful or capricious idea". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whimsey?

whimsey has 2 syllables: whim-sey. The stress falls on "whim".

What is another word for whimsey?

Close synonyms include notion, whim, whimsy, flightiness, arbitrariness. 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 whimsey a common word?

whimsey 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.