blowpipe

Other forms of blowpipe

plural

blowpipes·

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 blowpipe

What does blowpipe mean?

blowpipe means "a tube that directs air or gas into a flame to concentrate heat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blowpipe?

blowpipe has 2 syllables: blow-pipe. The stress falls on "blow". In IPA it is /ˈbloʊˌpaɪp/.

What is another word for blowpipe?

Close synonyms include blowtube, blow tube, blowgun, blowtube, blow tube. 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 blowpipe a common word?

blowpipe 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.

What rhymes with blowpipe?

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