funicular

Other forms of funicular

plural

funiculars·

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 funicular

What does funicular mean?

funicular means "a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in funicular?

funicular has 4 syllables: fu-ni-cu-lar. The stress falls on "ni".

What is another word for funicular?

Close synonyms include cable railway, funicular railway. 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 funicular a common word?

funicular 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.