Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

buick

/ˈbjuːɪk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English

Syllables: buick
IPA: /ˈbjuːɪk/

13

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

name

An American car brand belonging to GM.

noun

A car of this make.

Example Sentences

"Buick is offering a bigger color palette this year, courtesy of the chemical wizardry of DuPont."
"They've owned several Buicks over the years. Their newest one is a crossover model."
"Eleven Cubans in a vintage Buick — three of them the original “truckonauts” who tried a similar intrepid journey last year aboard a battered Chevy pickup — were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard early Wednesday and now face a return trip to the communist island."

Etymology

The surname is a variant of Bewick; the brand is named after Scottish-American inventor David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929).

Inflected Forms

Buicks (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

Chevrolet Chevy Saturn Pontiac Oldsmobile Olds Cadillac Caddy

Rhymes With

lueck

Questions

How do you pronounce buick?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbjuːɪk/.
What does buick mean?: A surname.
Where does buick come from?: The surname is a variant of Bewick; the brand is named after Scottish-American inventor David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929).

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