paddlewheel

Questions about paddlewheel

What does paddlewheel mean?

paddlewheel means "a large wheel fitted with paddles and driven by an engine in order to propel a boat".

How many syllables are in paddlewheel?

paddlewheel has 3 syllables and divides as padd-le-wheel 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 paddlewheel?

Close synonyms include paddle wheel. 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 paddlewheel a common word?

paddlewheel 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.