bezel

1. 1.

   a sloping edge on a cutting tool

   Broaderedge

Other forms of bezel

plural

bezels·

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 bezel

What does bezel mean?

bezel means "a sloping edge on a cutting tool".

How many syllables are in bezel?

bezel has 2 syllables: be-zel. The stress falls on "be".

Is bezel a common word?

bezel 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.