trickery
/ˈtɹɪ.kə.ɹi/noun
trickery is spelled T-R-I-C-K-E-R-Y: 8 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,789th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, trickery means “Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of trickery is trickeries.
How many letters and syllables are in trickery?
| Letters | 8: T-R-I-C-K-E-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,789th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is trickery?
Trickery appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,789th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce trickery?
- US /ˈtɹɪ.kə.ɹi/
Trickery has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-trickery.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with trickery?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as trickery from its last stressed vowel (/ɪkəɹi/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of trickery
- trickeries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does trickery mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Deception, deceit or underhanded behavior.
- 2
The art of dressing up; imposture, pretense.
- 3
Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Trickery in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense underhanded behavior:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | tricherie, magouillage |
| German | Betrügerei |
| Portuguese | fraude, falcatrua |
| Spanish | triquiñuela, superchería, trapisonda |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does trickery come from?
From trick + -ery, first recorded in 1719.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).