crampon

Other forms of crampon

plural

crampons·

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 crampon

What does crampon mean?

crampon means "a hinged pair of curved iron bars; used to raise heavy objects". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crampon?

crampon has 2 syllables: cram-pon. The stress falls on "cram". In IPA it is /ˈkɹæmpɔn/.

What is another word for crampon?

Close synonyms include crampoon, crampoon, climbing iron, climber. 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 crampon a common word?

crampon 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.