pistol

Other forms of pistol

plural

pistols·

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 pistol

What does pistol mean?

pistol means "a firearm that is held and fired with one hand".

How many syllables are in pistol?

pistol has 2 syllables: pis-tol. The stress falls on "pis". In IPA it is /ˈpɪstəl/.

What is another word for pistol?

Close synonyms include handgun, side arm, shooting iron. 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 pistol a common word?

pistol 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.

What rhymes with pistol?

1 word rhymes with pistol. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.