quoin

Other forms of quoin

plural

quoins·

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 quoin

What does quoin mean?

quoin means "expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in quoin?

quoin has 1 syllable: quoin. In IPA it is /ˈkwɔɪn/.

What is another word for quoin?

Close synonyms include coign, coigne, coign, coigne, corner. 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 quoin a common word?

quoin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.