mandril

Questions about mandril

What does mandril mean?

mandril means "any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts".

How many syllables are in mandril?

mandril has 2 syllables and divides as man-dril 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 mandril?

Close synonyms include spindle, mandrel, arbor. 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 mandril a common word?

mandril 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.