airgun

Questions about airgun

What does airgun mean?

airgun means "a gun that propels a projectile by compressed air".

How many syllables are in airgun?

airgun has 2 syllables and divides as air-gun under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for airgun?

Close synonyms include air gun, air rifle. 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 airgun a common word?

airgun is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.