bottleneck

Other forms of bottleneck

plural

bottlenecks·

past tense

bottlenecked·

present participle

bottlenecking·

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 bottleneck

What does bottleneck mean?

bottleneck means "a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bottleneck?

bottleneck has 3 syllables: bott-le-neck. The stress falls on "bott". In IPA it is /ˈbɑtəlˌnɛk/.

What is another word for bottleneck?

Close synonyms include constriction, chokepoint. 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 bottleneck a common word?

bottleneck is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 bottleneck?

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