sweatband

1. 1.

   a band of fabric or leather sewn inside the crown of a hat

   Broaderband
2. 2.

   a band of material tied around the forehead or wrist to absorb sweat

   Broaderband

Other forms of sweatband

plural

sweatbands·

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 sweatband

What does sweatband mean?

sweatband means "a band of fabric or leather sewn inside the crown of a hat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sweatband?

sweatband has 3 syllables: swe-at-band. The stress falls on "swe".

Is sweatband a common word?

sweatband 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.