gasoline

Other forms of gasoline

plural

gasolines·

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 gasoline

What does gasoline mean?

gasoline means "a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines".

How many syllables are in gasoline?

gasoline has 3 syllables: gas-o-line. The stress falls on "gas". In IPA it is /ˈɡæsəˌlin/.

What is another word for gasoline?

Close synonyms include gasolene, gas, petrol. 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 gasoline a common word?

gasoline 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.

What rhymes with gasoline?

24 words rhyme with gasoline. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.