Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sicker

/ˈsɪkɚ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English

Syllables: sic-ker
IPA: /ˈsɪkɚ/

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

comparative form of sick: more sick.

adj

adj

adv

adv

verb

To percolate, trickle, or seep; to ooze, as water through a crack.

Intransitive verb

Example Sentences

"I'm sicker that he's not home."
"To walk a sicker path"
"But ſicker ſo it is, as the bꝛight ſtarre / Seemeth ay greater, when it is farre:"
"And here was we made sicker than he was wi' you[…]"
"I'm as great on the side o' the law as it's siccar to be in thae uncertain times."
"No drop of water fell from the hot blue Or sickered from the skeleton of earth."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English siker, sikker, sykkere, secre, seccre, from Old English sēocra (“sicker”), equivalent to sick + -er.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: siker, sēocra, sicer, *sikur, sēcūrus, *sikeren

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈsɪkɚ/

Usage

Intransitive verb

Inflected Forms

siker (alternative) siccer (alternative) siccar (alternative) sickers (present, singular) sickering (participle, present) sickered (participle, past) sickered (past) sigger (alternative) zigger (alternative)

Derived Forms

sickerhood sickerly sickerness

Rhymes With

liquor quicker sticker thicker kicker vicar flickr flicker ticker wicker picker clicker

Questions

How do you pronounce sicker?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɪkɚ/.
What does sicker mean?: comparative form of sick: more sick.
Where does sicker come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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