oilrig

Questions about oilrig

What does oilrig mean?

oilrig means "rig used in drilling for oil or gas".

How many syllables are in oilrig?

oilrig has 2 syllables and divides as oil-rig 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 oilrig?

Close synonyms include drill rig, drilling rig, oil rig. 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 oilrig a common word?

oilrig 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.