handsaw

Other forms of handsaw

plural

handsaws·

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 handsaw

What does handsaw mean?

handsaw means "a saw used with one hand for cutting wood".

How many syllables are in handsaw?

handsaw has 2 syllables: hand-saw. The stress falls on "hand". In IPA it is /ˈhændˌsɔ/.

What is another word for handsaw?

Close synonyms include hand saw, carpenter's saw. 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 handsaw a common word?

handsaw 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.

What rhymes with handsaw?

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