cockpit

Other forms of cockpit

plural

cockpits·

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 cockpit

What does cockpit mean?

cockpit means "compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cockpit?

cockpit has 2 syllables: cock-pit. The stress falls on "cock". In IPA it is /ˈkɑkˌpɪt/.

Is cockpit a common word?

cockpit 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 cockpit?

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