carburettor

Other forms of carburettor

plural

carburettors·

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 carburettor

What does carburettor mean?

carburettor means "mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion".

How many syllables are in carburettor?

carburettor has 4 syllables: car-bu-ret-tor. The stress falls on "bu".

What is another word for carburettor?

Close synonyms include carburetor. 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 carburettor a common word?

carburettor 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.