respirator

Other forms of respirator

plural

respirators·

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 respirator

What does respirator mean?

respirator means "a breathing device for administering long-term artificial respiration". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in respirator?

respirator has 4 syllables: res-pi-ra-tor. The stress falls on "res". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛspɚˌeɪtɚ/.

What is another word for respirator?

Close synonyms include inhalator, gasmask, gas helmet. 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 respirator a common word?

respirator 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 respirator?

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