mangonel

Other forms of mangonel

plural

mangonels·

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.

Questions about mangonel

What does mangonel mean?

mangonel means "an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles".

How many syllables are in mangonel?

mangonel has 3 syllables: man-go-nel. The stress falls on "man".

What is another word for mangonel?

Close synonyms include catapult, arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole. 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 mangonel a common word?

mangonel is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.