cwt

Other forms of cwt

plural

cwts·

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 cwt

What does cwt mean?

cwt means "a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cwt?

cwt has 1 syllable: cwt.

What is another word for cwt?

Close synonyms include hundredweight, short hundredweight, centner, cental, quintal. 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 cwt a common word?

cwt 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.