whatchamacallit

Other forms of whatchamacallit

plural

whatchamacallits·

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 whatchamacallit

What does whatchamacallit mean?

whatchamacallit means "something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known".

How many syllables are in whatchamacallit?

whatchamacallit has 5 syllables: what-cha-ma-cal-lit. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for whatchamacallit?

Close synonyms include doodad, doohickey, doojigger, gimmick, gizmo. 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 whatchamacallit a common word?

whatchamacallit is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.