hosepipe

Questions about hosepipe

What does hosepipe mean?

hosepipe means "a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas".

How many syllables are in hosepipe?

hosepipe has 3 syllables and divides as ho-se-pipe 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 hosepipe?

Close synonyms include hose. 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 hosepipe a common word?

hosepipe 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.