underframe

Other forms of underframe

plural

underframes·

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 underframe

What does underframe mean?

underframe means "the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape".

How many syllables are in underframe?

underframe has 3 syllables: un-der-frame. The stress falls on "un".

What is another word for underframe?

Close synonyms include skeleton, skeletal frame, frame. 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 underframe a common word?

underframe 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.