gunsight

Other forms of gunsight

plural

gunsights·

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 gunsight

What does gunsight mean?

gunsight means "a sight used for aiming a gun".

How many syllables are in gunsight?

gunsight has 2 syllables: gun-sight. The stress falls on "gun".

What is another word for gunsight?

Close synonyms include gun-sight. 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 gunsight a common word?

gunsight 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.