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 under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. 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 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.