gyro

Other forms of gyro

plural

gyroes·

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 gyro

What does gyro mean?

gyro means "a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gyro?

gyro has 2 syllables: gy-ro. The stress falls on "gy". In IPA it is /ˈdʒaɪˌɹoʊ/.

What is another word for gyro?

Close synonyms include gyroscope. 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 gyro a common word?

gyro 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.

What rhymes with gyro?

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