panhandle

1. 1.

   a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area

   “Wheeling is located in the northern panhandle of West Virginia”

   Broadergeographical area
2. 2.

   the handle of a pan

   Broaderhandle

   Part ofpan

1. 1.

   beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money

   Broaderbeg

Other forms of panhandle

plural

panhandles·

past tense

panhandled·

present participle

panhandling·

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 panhandle

What does panhandle mean?

panhandle means "a relatively narrow strip of land projecting from some larger area". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in panhandle?

panhandle has 3 syllables: pan-han-dle. The stress falls on "pan". In IPA it is /ˈpænˌhændəl/.

Is panhandle a common word?

panhandle 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.

What rhymes with panhandle?

4 words rhyme with panhandle. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.