regulator

Other forms of regulator

plural

regulators·

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 regulator

What does regulator mean?

regulator means "any of various controls or devices for regulating or controlling fluid flow, pressure, temperature, etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in regulator?

regulator has 4 syllables: reg-u-la-tor. The stress falls on "reg". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛɡjəˌleɪtɚ/.

What is another word for regulator?

Close synonyms include governor. 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 regulator a common word?

regulator 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.

What rhymes with regulator?

14 words rhyme with regulator. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.