wisecrack

Other forms of wisecrack

plural

wisecracks·

past tense

wisecracked·

present participle

wisecracking·

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 wisecrack

What does wisecrack mean?

wisecrack means "witty remark". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wisecrack?

wisecrack has 2 syllables: wise-crack. The stress falls on "wise". In IPA it is /ˈwaɪzˌkɹæk/.

What is another word for wisecrack?

Close synonyms include crack, sally, quip. 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 wisecrack a common word?

wisecrack 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 wisecrack?

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