nozzle

Other forms of nozzle

plural

nozzles·

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 nozzle

What does nozzle mean?

nozzle means "a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nozzle?

nozzle has 2 syllables: noz-zle. The stress falls on "noz". In IPA it is /ˈnɑzəl/.

What is another word for nozzle?

Close synonyms include nose, beak, honker, hooter, snoot. 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 nozzle a common word?

nozzle 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.