stovepipe

Other forms of stovepipe

plural

stovepipes·

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 stovepipe

What does stovepipe mean?

stovepipe means "chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stovepipe?

stovepipe has 3 syllables: sto-ve-pipe. The stress falls on "sto".

What is another word for stovepipe?

Close synonyms include dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, top hat. 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 stovepipe a common word?

stovepipe 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.