rachet

Other forms of rachet

plural

rachets·

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 rachet

What does rachet mean?

rachet means "mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction".

How many syllables are in rachet?

rachet has 2 syllables: ra-chet. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for rachet?

Close synonyms include ratchet, ratch. 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 rachet a common word?

rachet 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.