widget

Other forms of widget

plural

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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 widget

What does widget mean?

widget means "something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in widget?

widget has 2 syllables: wid-get. The stress falls on "wid". In IPA it is /ˈwɪdʒɪt/.

What is another word for widget?

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 widget a common word?

widget 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.