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say it: JOY-stik
joystick is a noun meaning "a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane". It is pronounced /ˈdʒɔɪˌstɪk/ — JOY-stik. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane
a manual control consisting of a vertical handle that can move freely in two directions; used as an input device to computers or to devices controlled by computers
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for joystick come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.