peephole

Questions about peephole

What does peephole mean?

peephole means "a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep".

How many syllables are in peephole?

peephole has 3 syllables and divides as pee-pho-le 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 peephole?

Close synonyms include spyhole, eyehole. 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 peephole a common word?

peephole 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.