liftgate

Questions about liftgate

What does liftgate mean?

liftgate means "a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open".

How many syllables are in liftgate?

liftgate has 2 syllables and divides as lift-gate 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 liftgate?

Close synonyms include hatchback, hatchback door, hatch. 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 liftgate a common word?

liftgate 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.