gyre

Other forms of gyre

plural

gyres·

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 gyre

What does gyre mean?

gyre means "a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)".

How many syllables are in gyre?

gyre has 1 syllable: gyre.

What is another word for gyre?

Close synonyms include coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue. 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 gyre a common word?

gyre is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.