headlamp

Other forms of headlamp

plural

headlamps·

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 headlamp

What does headlamp mean?

headlamp means "a powerful light with reflector; attached to the front of an automobile or locomotive".

How many syllables are in headlamp?

headlamp has 3 syllables and divides as he-ad-lamp under the regular spelling rules. 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 headlamp?

Close synonyms include headlight. 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 headlamp a common word?

headlamp 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.