accelerator

Other forms of accelerator

plural

accelerators·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about accelerator

What does accelerator mean?

accelerator means "a pedal that controls the throttle valve". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accelerator?

accelerator has 5 syllables: ac-cel-e-ra-tor. The stress falls on "cel". In IPA it is /ækˈsɛlɚˌeɪtɚ/.

What is another word for accelerator?

Close synonyms include accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is accelerator a common word?

accelerator is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with accelerator?

20 words rhyme with accelerator. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.