sluicegate

Other forms of sluicegate

plural

sluicegates·

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 sluicegate

What does sluicegate mean?

sluicegate means "regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice".

How many syllables are in sluicegate?

sluicegate has 4 syllables and divides as slu-i-ce-gate 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 sluicegate?

Close synonyms include sluice valve, floodgate, penstock, head gate, water gate. 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 sluicegate a common word?

sluicegate 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.