gearstick

Questions about gearstick

What does gearstick mean?

gearstick means "a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears".

How many syllables are in gearstick?

gearstick has 3 syllables and divides as ge-ar-stick 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 gearstick?

Close synonyms include gearshift, shifter, gear lever. 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 gearstick a common word?

gearstick 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.