schnorkel

Questions about schnorkel

What does schnorkel mean?

schnorkel means "air passage provided by a retractable device containing intake and exhaust pipes; permits a submarine to stay submerged for extended periods of time".

How many syllables are in schnorkel?

schnorkel has 2 syllables and divides as schnor-kel under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for schnorkel?

Close synonyms include snorkel, schnorchel, snorkel breather, breather. 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 schnorkel a common word?

schnorkel 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.