whisky

Other forms of whisky

plural

whiskies·

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 whisky

What does whisky mean?

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

How many syllables are in whisky?

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

What is another word for whisky?

Close synonyms include whiskey. 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 whisky a common word?

whisky 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 whisky?

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