petrol

Other forms of petrol

plural

petrols·

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 petrol

What does petrol mean?

petrol means "a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines".

How many syllables are in petrol?

petrol has 2 syllables: pet-rol. The stress falls on "pet". In IPA it is /ˈpɛtɹoʊl/.

What is another word for petrol?

Close synonyms include gasoline, gasolene, gas. 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 petrol a common word?

petrol is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.