pincer

Other forms of pincer

plural

pincers·

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 pincer

What does pincer mean?

pincer means "a hand tool for holding consisting of a compound lever for grasping". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pincer?

pincer has 2 syllables and divides as pin-cer 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 pincer?

Close synonyms include pair of pincers, tweezer, pair of tweezers, claw, chela. 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 pincer a common word?

pincer 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.