cowling

Other forms of cowling

plural

cowlings·

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 cowling

What does cowling mean?

cowling means "protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine".

How many syllables are in cowling?

cowling has 2 syllables: cow-ling. The stress falls on "cow". In IPA it is /ˈkaʊlɪŋ/.

What is another word for cowling?

Close synonyms include hood, bonnet, cowl. 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 cowling a common word?

cowling 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.