countersink

Other forms of countersink

plural

countersinks·

past tense or participle

countersank

past tense or participle

countersunk

present participle

countersinking·

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 countersink

What does countersink mean?

countersink means "a hole (usually in wood) with the top part enlarged so that a screw or bolt will fit into it and lie below the surface". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in countersink?

countersink has 3 syllables: coun-ter-sink. The stress falls on "coun".

What is another word for countersink?

Close synonyms include counterbore, countersink bit, set. 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 countersink a common word?

countersink 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.