faucet

Other forms of faucet

plural

faucets·

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 faucet

What does faucet mean?

faucet means "a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir".

How many syllables are in faucet?

faucet has 2 syllables: fau-cet. The stress falls on "fau". In IPA it is /ˈfɔsət/.

What is another word for faucet?

Close synonyms include spigot. 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 faucet a common word?

faucet 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.