vehicle

Other forms of vehicle

plural

vehicles·

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 vehicle

What does vehicle mean?

vehicle means "a conveyance that transports people or objects". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vehicle?

vehicle has 3 syllables: ve-hi-cle. The stress falls on "ve". In IPA it is /ˈvihɪkəl/.

What is another word for vehicle?

Close synonyms include fomite. 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 vehicle a common word?

vehicle 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.