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: oil-rig. The stress falls on "oil".

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.