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Synonyms for thicket

Most common

forest copse coppice brushwood clump chaparral shrubbery spinney

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

Forms

Plural
thickets → copses, forests, coppices, brushes…

Example sentences

  • forest The forest fire began to spread in all directions.
  • copse They came to a copse of trees at the edge of the field.
  • brushwood Please gather some brushwood.
  • clump That's not a stone. It's just a clump of dirt.
  • chaparral The roadrunner is a bird also known as the "Chaparral Cock" in Texas.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
thicketrising
foreststeady
copserising
coppicesteady
brushwoodsteady
clumprising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
wood1
5 letters
brush1, brake1, grove1, clump1, copse
6 letters
forest2, covert2, bocage
7 letters
coppice, spinney2, woodlet
9 letters
shrubbery3, chaparral3, brushwood

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (forest2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
fourré
Español
mata
Deutsch
Dickicht