ventilator

Other forms of ventilator

plural

ventilators·

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 ventilator

What does ventilator mean?

ventilator means "a device (such as a fan) that introduces fresh air or expels foul air". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ventilator?

ventilator has 4 syllables: ven-ti-la-tor. The stress falls on "ven". In IPA it is /ˈvɛntəˌleɪtɚ/.

What is another word for ventilator?

Close synonyms include breathing device, breathing apparatus, breathing machine. 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 ventilator a common word?

ventilator 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 ventilator?

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