drawstring

Questions about drawstring

What does drawstring mean?

drawstring means "a tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening".

How many syllables are in drawstring?

drawstring has 2 syllables and divides as draw-string under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for drawstring?

Close synonyms include drawing string, string. 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 drawstring a common word?

drawstring 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.