joinery

Questions about joinery

What does joinery mean?

joinery means "fine woodwork done by a joiner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in joinery?

joinery has 3 syllables: joi-ne-ry. The stress falls on "joi". In IPA it is /ˈdʒɔɪnɚi/.

What is another word for joinery?

Close synonyms include cabinetmaking. 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 joinery a common word?

joinery 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.