treadmill

Other forms of treadmill

plural

treadmills·

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 treadmill

What does treadmill mean?

treadmill means "an exercise device consisting of an endless belt on which a person can walk or jog without changing place". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in treadmill?

treadmill has 2 syllables: tread-mill. The stress falls on "tread". In IPA it is /ˈtɹɛdˌmɪl/.

What is another word for treadmill?

Close synonyms include treadwheel, tread-wheel, salt mine. 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 treadmill a common word?

treadmill is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with treadmill?

5 words rhyme with treadmill. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.