crosspiece

Other forms of crosspiece

plural

crosspieces·

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 crosspiece

What does crosspiece mean?

crosspiece means "a horizontal beam that extends across something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crosspiece?

crosspiece has 2 syllables: cros-spiece. The stress falls on "cros". In IPA it is /ˈkɹɔˌspis/.

What is another word for crosspiece?

Close synonyms include trave, traverse, crossbeam. 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 crosspiece a common word?

crosspiece 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.