Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ticket

/ˈtɪk.ɪt/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English

Syllables: tick-et
IPA: /ˈtɪk.ɪt/

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.

noun

A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.

noun

A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.

noun

A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.

noun

A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.

noun

A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.

noun

A citation for a traffic violation.

noun

A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled.

Example Sentences

"I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday; want to come?"
"train ticket bus ticket plane ticket"
"You must show your ticket to the conductor."
"lottery ticket raffle ticket"
"If I'd used my usual numbers, it would've been a winning ticket! Unlucky!"
"The variety of the demands of the railways for staff is almost endless. They require men with master's tickets as dock masters and to command their steamships."

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Scots tikkat, tikket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

Origin

Source language: Middle French

Word Breakdown

Root: etiquet, estechier, *stikkjan, *stikaną, *(s)teyg-

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtɪk.ɪt/
British English: /ˈtɪk.ɪt/

Usage

Inflected Forms

tickets (plural) tickets (present, singular) ticketing (participle, present) ticketed (participle, past) ticketed (past)

Derived Forms

multiticket nonticket pawnticket reticket ticketable ticketbooth ticketer ticketless ticketmate underticket nonticketed unticketed

Phrases

airline ticket airplane ticket air ticket all-ticket back to back ticket balance the ticket beer ticket big-ticket

Frequently Paired Words

Ticket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Synonyms

license just the ticket slate tag fine

Rhymes With

cricket wicket picket thicket spigot snicket pricket

Questions

How do you pronounce ticket?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɪk.ɪt/.
What does ticket mean?: A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
Where does ticket come from?: It is traced to Middle French.

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