bullet

Other forms of bullet

plural

bullets·

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 bullet

What does bullet mean?

bullet means "a projectile that is fired from a gun". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bullet?

bullet has 2 syllables: bul-let. The stress falls on "bul". In IPA it is /ˈbʊlət/.

What is another word for bullet?

Close synonyms include slug, bullet train, fastball, heater, smoke. 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 bullet a common word?

bullet is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.