trike

Questions about trike

What does trike mean?

trike means "a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals".

How many syllables are in trike?

trike has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for trike?

Close synonyms include tricycle, velocipede. 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 trike a common word?

trike is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.