wheelbarrow

Other forms of wheelbarrow

plural

wheelbarrows·

past tense

wheelbarrowed·

present participle

wheelbarrowing·

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 wheelbarrow

What does wheelbarrow mean?

wheelbarrow means "a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wheelbarrow?

wheelbarrow has 3 syllables: wheel-bar-row. The stress falls on "wheel". In IPA it is /ˈwilˌbɛɹoʊ/.

What is another word for wheelbarrow?

Close synonyms include barrow, garden cart, lawn cart. 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 wheelbarrow a common word?

wheelbarrow 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.