cogwheel

Other forms of cogwheel

plural

cogwheels·

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 cogwheel

What does cogwheel mean?

cogwheel means "a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion".

How many syllables are in cogwheel?

cogwheel has 2 syllables and divides as cog-wheel under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cogwheel?

Close synonyms include gear, gear wheel, geared wheel. 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 cogwheel a common word?

cogwheel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.