watt

Other forms of watt

plural

watts·

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 watt

What does watt mean?

watt means "a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in watt?

watt has 1 syllable: watt. In IPA it is /ˈwɑt/.

What is another word for watt?

Close synonyms include W, James Watt. 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 watt a common word?

watt 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 watt?

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