waterwheel

1. 1.

   a wheel with buckets attached to its rim; raises water from a stream or pond

   Synonymswater wheel

   Broaderwheel
2. 2.

   a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine

   Synonymswater wheel

   Broaderwheel

   Narrowermillwheelnoria

   Part ofwater mill

   Partsbucket

Other forms of waterwheel

plural

waterwheels·

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 waterwheel

What does waterwheel mean?

waterwheel means "a wheel with buckets attached to its rim; raises water from a stream or pond". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in waterwheel?

waterwheel has 3 syllables: wa-ter-wheel. The stress falls on "wa".

What is another word for waterwheel?

Close synonyms include water wheel, water wheel. 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 waterwheel a common word?

waterwheel 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.