diesel

Other forms of diesel

plural

diesels·

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 diesel

What does diesel mean?

diesel means "German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in diesel?

diesel has 2 syllables: die-sel. The stress falls on "die". In IPA it is /ˈdisəl/.

What is another word for diesel?

Close synonyms include Rudolf Diesel, Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel, diesel engine, diesel motor. 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 diesel a common word?

diesel is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.