standpipe

1. 1.

   a vertical pipe

   Broaderpipe

Other forms of standpipe

plural

standpipes·

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 standpipe

What does standpipe mean?

standpipe means "a vertical pipe".

How many syllables are in standpipe?

standpipe has 2 syllables: stand-pipe. The stress falls on "stand".

Is standpipe a common word?

standpipe 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.