carousel

Other forms of carousel

plural

carousels·

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 carousel

What does carousel mean?

carousel means "a conveyer belt that carries luggage to be claimed by air travelers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carousel?

carousel has 3 syllables: car-ou-sel. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɛɹəˌsɛl/.

What is another word for carousel?

Close synonyms include carrousel, luggage carousel, luggage carrousel, carrousel, merry-go-round. 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 carousel a common word?

carousel is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 carousel?

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