towel

Other forms of towel

plural

towels·

past tense or participle

towelled

present participle

towelling

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 towel

What does towel mean?

towel means "a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in towel?

towel has 2 syllables: to-wel. The stress falls on "to". In IPA it is /ˈtaʊəl/.

Is towel a common word?

towel is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.