gizmo

Other forms of gizmo

plural

gizmoes·

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 gizmo

What does gizmo mean?

gizmo means "something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gizmo?

gizmo has 2 syllables: giz-mo. The stress falls on "giz". In IPA it is /ˈɡɪzˌmoʊ/.

What is another word for gizmo?

Close synonyms include doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gismo. 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 gizmo a common word?

gizmo 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 gizmo?

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