whiskey

Other forms of whiskey

plural

whiskeys·

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 whiskey

What does whiskey mean?

whiskey means "a liquor made from fermented mash of grain".

How many syllables are in whiskey?

whiskey has 2 syllables: whis-key. The stress falls on "whis". In IPA it is /ˈwɪski/.

What is another word for whiskey?

Close synonyms include whisky. 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 whiskey a common word?

whiskey is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 whiskey?

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